[pacman-dev] Unnecessary syscalls

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On 07/26/2010 04:55 PM, Tim Nieradzik wrote:
> Hello,
>
> it's  my  first  message  on  this   list.   I'd  like  to  make  a  few
> contributions  to  improve  Pacman's  performance.  Pacman  is  a  great
> package  manager  which  I'm now  using  for  a  few  years  without any
> problems.  It also  has a  very clear and  well-structured code  but its
> disk stress concerns me a bit.
>
> Looking at  strace,  a few syscalls appear  superfluous to me.  Deleting
> them made pacman  -Syu (right after a disk flush)  about 10s faster (70%
> less syscalls). Here's the patch:
>
> http://pastebin.archlinux.fr/406557
>

better send your patch inline to be reviewed

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Super_Quick_Git_Guide#Sending_patches


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