Re: These new diffs are great, but...
* Marc Haber:
> The machine in Question is a P3 with 1200 MHz. What's making the
> process slow is the turnaround time for the http requests, as observed
> multiple times in this thread alone.
Then your setup is very broken. APT performs HTTP pipelining.
On my machines, I see the behavior Miles described: lots of disk I/O.
Obviously, APT reconstructs every intermediate version of the packages
file.
The fix is to combine the diffs before applying them, so that you only
need one process the large Packages file once. I happen to have ML
code which does this (including the conversion to a patch
representation which is more amenable to this kind of optimization)
and would be willing to port it to C++, but someone else would need to
deal with the APT integration because I'm not familiar with its
architecture.
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