Re: mktexlsr called to often in postin of tetex-base?
Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:
> On 20.10.06 Florent Rougon (f.rougon@free.fr) wrote:
>> Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>> > IMHO there is room for optimization. If not, please explain.
>>
>> Yes, there is room IMHO too. However, calling mktexlsr does not
>> take *very* long, so we won't gain that much. Still, 0.5 second or
>> so on my system for non-first runs (later runs are faster than the
>> first one due to the caching performed by the kernel).
>>
> Well, I'm used to run mostly on older hardware, where the time is
> significantly higher. I've seen times up to 5 seconds, hence it came
> to my attention.
> Should I file a wishlist bug or is nobody willing to implement the
> mentioned optimization (if not done yet)?
Oh, please do so. However, I don't know whether I'll put much effort in
optimizing teTeX packages for anything. Shouldn't we rather concentrate
on things like making texlive usable for "hardware recyclers"? And
embedded systems, too.
Regards, Frank
--
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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