Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 11:08:06 -0700 From: Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com> To: Alban Hertroys <dalroi@solfertje.student.utwente.nl> Cc: delphij@freebsd.org, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, core@freebsd.org, Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@freebsd.org>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Official request: Please make GNU grep the default Message-ID: <894C8953-7F2F-486F-8701-A3DFF65D7627@kientzle.com> In-Reply-To: <3CF90102-4DD5-4A44-925B-C215AE5AB36A@solfertje.student.utwente.nl> References: <4C6505A4.9060203@FreeBSD.org> <20100813085235.GA16268@freebsd.org> <4C66C010.3040308@FreeBSD.org> <4C673F02.8000805@FreeBSD.org> <3CF90102-4DD5-4A44-925B-C215AE5AB36A@solfertje.student.utwente.nl>
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On Aug 15, 2010, at 1:56 AM, Alban Hertroys wrote: > On 15 Aug 2010, at 3:12, Doug Barton wrote: >=20 >> (And before anyone bothers to reply saying "Use pkg_info -O for that" >> I'll save you the trouble. My version is from 10-20% faster. Not sure >> why, don't really care.) :) >=20 >=20 > Congrats for beating the performance of a(nother) utility in base, but = - regardless of whether you'd use it in that case - doesn't that just = indicate that pkg_info could use some performance improvements as well? http://libpkg.googlecode.com/ This is David Forsyth's GSoC project to build a standard library for managing the on-disk package database. His pkg_info implementation built on this library is in fact a lot faster than what's currently in the tree. He's starting to prototype pkg_delete and pkg_add on the new library but there's still a lot of work to do. Tim
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