On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:53:17PM +0100, Laszlo Papp <[email protected]> 
wrote:
> > I asked if you have any _numbers_ showing its low impact regarding the
> > search time. :)
> 
> echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
> 
> time pacman -Ss valgrind
> frugalware-current/valgrind 3.5.0-1 (devel-extra)
>     Tools for debugging and profiling Linux programs.
> frugalware-current/valkyrie 1.4.0-1 (xapps-extra)
>     Qt GUI for Valgrind Tools
> 
> real  0m0.780s
> user  0m0.410s
> sys   0m0.210s
> 
> 
> time ./src/pacman-g2/.libs/pacman-g2 -Ss valgrind
> frugalware-current/valgrind 3.5.0-1 (devel-extra) [installed: 3.5.0-1]
>     Tools for debugging and profiling Linux programs.
> frugalware-current/valkyrie 1.4.0-1 (xapps-extra)
>     Qt GUI for Valgrind Tools
> 
> real  0m0.715s
> user  0m0.453s
> sys   0m0.190s

Thanks. So it makes searching about 9% slower. I pick a random machine,
I have 586 packages installed, and there are 5234 ones in the -Sl
output. So the slowdown changes output only in about 11% of the cases.

I dunno, what does the others think? Is this acceptable?

The alternate would be to disable this by default, enable only with with
(for example) 'pacman-g2 -Ss --installed' and that way there would be no
problem with slowing down the search with no output change in most
cases.

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