On Jan 30, 2022, at 12:25, Clemens Lang wrote: > > Hi developers, > > I recently noticed that trace mode was significantly slower on modern > macOS than it used to be, and found some time to investigate the root > cause. > > If you saw the same, please test the current master branch state with > > https://github.com/macports/macports-base/commit/3b949ccfe7a309bce1cc7041cdf56871890b784d > It should return your trace mode to previous speeds (about a 6-8x > improvement compared to how slow it currently is). > > I've also done some benchmarking and have a few more patches in my > pipeline that should bring a bit more (but rather minor compared to > this) improvements. > > HTH, > Clemens > > P.S.: I have not reported this problem to Apple. If somebody wants to > verify that it occurs with all uses of copyfile(3), it would be nice if > they could let them now.
Thanks Clemens. It's much faster now!
