On Nov 12, 2007 11:28 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com> wrote:
And continuing the trend of replying to myself, and showing why optimizing the small little parts of code can make a huge difference: $ time pacman -Qt > /dev/null real 0m0.089s user 0m0.023s sys 0m0.040s
$ time ./src/pacman/pacman -Qt > /dev/null real 0m0.377s user 0m0.277s sys 0m0.063s
This is a 5x increase in speed by making the change I described above in the previous email. I'll push a branch to my GIT repo tonight detailing the changes.
Dan, my hero. Looks like pacman 3.1 is going to be significantly better - yay. One question while we're on this - we're probably going to need a small script to clean out the requiredby entries from the local DB, just to be concise - of course we should back up the DB first 8)