-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Richard Purdie schreef: > On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 15:35 +0100, Harald Welte wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 02:23:19PM +0000, Richard Purdie wrote:
>>>>> 7) related: reimplement ipkg backend to use some indexed database. It's >>>>> just too slow >>> Are we talking about on device use or use during image generation? On >>> device is tricky but there are simple ways of speeding up image >>> generation that just need implementation. >> image generation is not an issue at all. >> >> We're talking about on-device use which is way too slow for our needs, >> especially considering the number of packages and that we'll have a GUI >> application in front/on top, in addition to that. >> >> If there are existing plans/ideas in this area, or somebody with some >> ipkg background has a good proposal and wants to implement it as paid >> contractor, this would be the time to talk about it. > > I think lots of people, me included have looked at the ipkg code and > wanted to see it rewritten with something like a sqlite backend rather > than parsing its ascii files all the time. Ipkg got 2x faster when turning up the memory bus to 200MHz, so a large part is spent copying few megs worth of lists to and from memory. On 64MB devices a big part of the slowness comes from OOM and swapping :( regards, Koen -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iD8DBQFF7D9cMkyGM64RGpERAt5wAKCEklyebJUEcO/092Gi52yCuO/0mACfdYD1 vNn7+1m87O7GJjbG2DC32Xs= =66b3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ distro-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/distro-devel
