On Wed, 20 Apr 2011, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 09:11:59PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Apr 2011, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > On my system with 1200 packages (far below the average popcon submitter), > > > traditional popcon take 2s. Once patched with the attached patch to use > > > dpkg -L, > > > it take 30s. Slowing down 15 times popcon is not acceptable. > > > > You can invoke "dpkg -L" less often by giving multiple packages as > > parameters. Each set of files will be separated by an empty line. > > Good, is that behaviour documented somewhere ?
man dpkg-query shows that multiple parameters are allowed, it does not explain that an empty line is the separator though. > > This will greatly improve the performance. > > Great, send me a patch and I will benchmark it. Dude, I'm not the maintainer of popcon... > The issue is not interactive performances but waste of system resource. Users > will complain. I'm a user too, and I complain about an error message that popcon spits out right now once a week... pick your poison. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org