On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 04:38 +0800, Jim Li wrote: > James Andrewartha wrote: > > Jim Li wrote: > > > >> Hi Takao, > >> > >> slocate is going to be integrated into Solaris as part of OpenSolaris > >> 2008.11. Could you please do L10N/I18N evaluation on it? > > > > Why slocate instead of mlocate? > > > We have a process to determine a prioritized list of packages for the > OpenSolaris 2008.11. slocate is in this list but not mlocate. If you > have any opinion, raise your hands and welcome your great suggestion and > comments about that.
mlocate is a faster replacement for slocate, and has been adopted by most Linux distributions. From its webpage [1]: "mlocate is a new locate implementation. The ?m? stands for ?merging?: updatedb reuses the existing database to avoid rereading most of the file system, which makes updatedb faster and does not trash the system caches as much. The locate(1) utility is intended to be completely compatible to slocate. It also attempts to be compatible to GNU locate, when it does not conflict with slocate compatibility." James Andrewartha [1] http://carolina.mff.cuni.cz/~trmac/blog/mlocate/
