[devel] [PATCH 0/3] optimize rpmsetcmp()

[Alexey Tourbin]

On Sat, Dec 04, 2010 at 07:29:11PM +0300, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 04, 2010 at 06:06:18PM +0300, Alexey Tourbin wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 03:35:42AM +0300, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> > > On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 10:35:37AM +0200, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > > > apt-shell < /dev/null
> > 
> > > Not so amazing as on your test platform, but awesome anyway.
> > > I'm going to apply these patches.
> > > If anybody has objections, please speak up now.
> > 
> > The objection is, why do you think the problem is with here, not with apt?
> > Go yonder and optimize apt!
> 
> It was rpm that was changed to work 10x times slower, not apt.
> But apt certainly could be made better, so feel free to optimize it.

RPM goes reasonably fast, and it's not exactly "slower".
Something that might be called unreasonable is behind the RPM. 

I can't see why rpm is now 10x times slower.
Slower compared to... what?

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> ldv