Justin Krejci wrote:
Yes, the second run and subsequent runs for a period of time all seem to be fairly quick, but I thought it odd that my AMD64 system is always quick.
The initial slowdown is due to portage having to scan over the entire tree of installed packages, calculating virtuals. Chances are your AMD64 system has fewer packages installed (and is faster by system specification too).
Hopefully portage 2.1 will make improvements in this area. Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
