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has your project resulted in anything? :) Just curios about perhaps nice portage additions ;) Regards, Necoro Emma Strubell schrieb: > Hi everyone. My name is Emma, and I am completely new to this list. I've > been using Gentoo since 2004, including Portage of course, and before I say > anything else I'd like to say thanks to everyone for such a kickass package > management system!! > > Anyway, for my final project in my Data Structures & Algorithms class this > semester, I would like to modify the search functionality in emerge. > Something I've always noticed about 'emerge -s' or '-S' is that, in general, > it takes a very long time to perform the searches. (Although, lately it does > seem to be running faster, specifically on my laptop as opposed to my > desktop. Strangely, though, it seems that when I do a simple 'emerge -av > whatever' on my laptop it takes a very long time for emerge to find the > package and/or determine the dependecies - whatever it's doing behind that > spinner. I can definitely go into more detail about this if anyone's > interested. It's really been puzzling me!) So, as my final project I've > proposed to improve the time it takes to perform a search using emerge. My > professor suggested that I look into implementing indexing. > > However, I've started looking at the code, and I must admit I'm pretty > overwhelmed! I don't know where to start. I was wondering if anyone on here > could give me a quick overview of how the search function currently works, > an idea as to what could be modified or implemented in order to improve the > running time of this code, or any tip really as to where I should start or > what I should start looking at. I'd really appreciate any help or advice!! > > Thanks a lot, and keep on making my Debian-using professor jealous :] > Emma > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkmUdZIACgkQ4UOg/zhYFuDRQQCfeVXb6uy+wBSKll4MHq54MiyX VawAn0TWrTBVKuxAPFWpQMvvO3yED5Fs =dBni -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
