On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 01:15:10PM -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 12:23 PM Mike Pagano <mpag...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > Adding linux-info calls to pkg_pretend or pkg_setup causes slowdowns > > > when running emerge, so we should do so only when there is a > > > compensating benefit. > > > > Is this a significant slowdown? Do you have any numbers? > > Adding a check for CONFIG_PACKET to the dhcpcd ebuild adds around 7 > seconds of delay time to the pkg_setup and/or pkg_pretend phase on my > system. > > That's ok if a small number of packages are doing it, but it would > become quite annoying if a significant number of them get queued up. 7 seconds is ridiculous.
I think we need to strip out a lot of the crap about trying to detect things in the stuff being built, and reduce the check to the simplest possible form: $ time zgrep -w CONFIG_PACKET /proc/config.gz CONFIG_PACKET=y real 0m0.032s user 0m0.021s sys 0m0.018s -- Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux: Dev, Infra Lead, Foundation Treasurer E-Mail : robb...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 11ACBA4F 4778E3F6 E4EDF38E B27B944E 34884E85 GnuPG FP : 7D0B3CEB E9B85B1F 825BCECF EE05E6F6 A48F6136
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