On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 01:27:20AM -0400, Joey Hess uttered:
> It'd be nice if someone would look at optimizing it sometime; the
> behavior I see with strace is absurd, and could easily be done with no
> syscalls, at least, by just reading the whole trustdb into memory.
>
I doubt very strongly that would end up being implemented, as gnupg likes to
lock the memory it plays with, so it can be considered "secure", I doubt
upstream would consider what is described above as secure. :-/
> [FWIW, this is a strace of a single gpg verify operation. I didn't even
> let it run all the way though, giving up when the strace log reached 700
> MB:
> joey@kite:~>grep llseek log |wc -l
> 5036905
> ]
>
Whoa.
--
Steve
<StevenK> Nah, I'm allergic to python.
<StevenK> It makes me swear and break stuff.
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