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Subject: Re: a two-level port system? (fwd)
In-Reply-To: <10787.928406989@peewee> from Jordan Hubbard at "Jun 3, 1999  3:49:49 am"
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As Jordan Hubbard wrote ...
> > of useless.  It's like doing uphill testing of a fat guy on a bicycle
> > against a Lamborghini - you "know" the result beforehand.
> 
> Unfortunately, what you're probably not aware of is that the fat guy
> also has a JATO unit strapped to the back of his bicycle.  Don't make
> assumptions. :-)

You've been reading too much of the Darwin Awards web site ;-)

> > If extraction of the ports collection (not files in general, just the
> > ports collection) is slower using soft updates than using "async"
> > mode, then it seems some elevator sorting isn't working the way it
> 
> Extraction of ALL the distribution bits is faster with async than it
> is with soft updates.  To put it another, more practical, way - if you
> timed the installation with a stopwatch, with or without ports, the
> async policy would win and Kirk has even pointed that out in other
> emails.  Given that, I have to honestly wonder why you've been arguing
> so strongly for soft updates being used in the installation.

Maybe I'm missing the very obvious: I've always considered (and lots
of people who first saw it had the same judgement..) the FreeBSD 
installation to be fast.

Even if you could gain, say, a 10% speedup overall, would that be worth the
time/effort?

Just playing the devil's (daemon's?) advocate here...

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