Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 18:50:42 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Second "RFC" on pkg-data idea for ports Message-ID: <20040415015042.GA59112@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <p0602040cbca3962685aa@[128.113.24.47]> References: <p0602041abca1e49dde40@[128.113.24.47]> <407C4035.8020609@ciam.ru> <p0602041fbca1ff481e60@[128.113.24.47]> <1081896823.772.58.camel@klotz.local> <xzp1xmq90gk.fsf@dwp.des.no> <20040414131949.3A56E43D31@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <20040414232927.GA56961@xor.obsecurity.org> <p0602040abca38b71031f@[128.113.24.47]> <20040415011809.GA58644@xor.obsecurity.org> <p0602040cbca3962685aa@[128.113.24.47]>
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--pf9I7BMVVzbSWLtt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 09:41:36PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 6:18 PM -0700 4/14/04, Kris Kennaway wrote: > >On Wed, Apr 14, 2004, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > > > > > My hope is that if I get far enough along into the pkg-data > > > project, the result would be that many of the common operations > > > would be faster. However, right now I can only say "that is one > > > of my goals", and I can't prove it would actually happen... > > > >There's only a few things that execute external commands in the > >common code path of port makefiles. I've been working hard to > >remove or limit them, and as I mentioned above it's possible to > >optimize the current framework a lot further without too much > >hard work. >=20 > Hmm. Well, if the pkg-data ideas did not actually speed things > up (as I hope they will), then that would eliminate one of the > main reasons that I have been interested in investigating them. > I do still suspect pkg-data would be faster, but maybe it won't > be as much of a difference as I am hoping it will be. I wouldn't want to bet the farm without seeing it in action, i.e. this isn't a selling point unless you can show it to be true. Kris --pf9I7BMVVzbSWLtt Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAfepxWry0BWjoQKURAqxOAKDf7KyVpsYNpi2b3+tGOJxLuVeBTACfYVwI cZwCUvJdcxXWXR9qCtK2Brg= =0lPp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pf9I7BMVVzbSWLtt--
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