On Monday 05 July 2004 09.20, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 08:27:41AM +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > > The 'Reading Package Lists...' step takes 22s on the system in > > question, which I think is awfully slow on a K6-333 with 128M RAM. > > Of course, it's far from unuseable, but I think when 'grep > > ^Package: *_Packages' takes only 3s, reading the Package lists in > > apt and storing them in some index should be doable a bit faster > > Why would you think that it should be faster for apt to read and > parse the Packages files and build a useful data structure out of > them than for grep to read them and perform a regex match on each > line? Badly worded sentence there. I think it should be possible to read the Packages files faster than the 22s it takes now, which is 10 times the time grep takes to read the file. I know apt does more than grep, but that much? Anyway, not knowing much about apt, and not willing to go into it more deeply, I shut up now. cheers -- vbi -- Your good nature will bring you unbounded happiness.
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