Re: Our Most Precious Resource: Programmer Time (was Re: long term goals)
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Gustavo> I would like to see dpkg installing debs with all the process being
> Gustavo> controled by C programs (look, installing packages in my K6 II makes
> Gustavo> it very slow!!)
>
> I have a Cyrix 133Mhz box, if that matters. And I suspect that
> the speed increases in maintianer scripts would be imperceptible,
> really, and not worth the potential of increased, harder to fix
> errors.
I'd go further and suspect that if Gustavo bothered to profile before he
suggested optimizations, he would discover that most of the slowdown on
his system is due to dpkg itself.
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