[gentoo-user] Portage performance dropped considerably

[Nikos Chantziaras]

Anyone else noticed this yet? Some portage update seems to have made 
"emerge -uDN @world" perform about 10 times slower than before. It used 
to take seconds, now it takes about 4 minutes only to tell me that 
there's nothing to update. And it does that every time, even directly in 
succession and with the caches warm.

Is it just me?