On 01/27/2014 11:57 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 22:54:28 +0100, hasufell wrote: > >>>> If it's about performance (in the sense of speed), then paludis >>>> is worse, because dependency calculation is more complex/complete >>>> there. >>> >>> That makes no sense at all. Paludis is written in a different >>> language using different algorithms. It's not about the amount of >>> work it does so much as how efficiently it does it. > >> That's exactly what I was saying. I was talking about speed, not >> efficiency. > > But the efficiency of the algorithm, and the language, affects the speed. > You can't presume "it does more, therefore it takes longer" if the two > programs do things in very different ways. > >
For people who are used to portage, paludis will be _slower_ in total, although the dependency calculation will be more accurate.
