Oleg Verych writes ("Re: dpkg flex-based status file parser, for 35% speedup"): > * Goswin von Brederlow: > > 35% speedup in 1% of the total time spend in dpkg? Is this the right > > place to optimize? I would have thought optimizing the *.list files > > would be more important. :) > > Please, text and ASCII pictures about *.list files. I'm afraid I didn't understand that message. What did you mean ? Ian.