On 07/26/2010 04:55 PM, Tim Nieradzik wrote:
Hello,
it's my first message on this list. I'd like to make a few
contributions to improve Pacman's performance. Pacman is a great
package manager which I'm now using for a few years without any
problems. It also has a very clear and well-structured code but its
disk stress concerns me a bit.
Looking at strace, a few syscalls appear superfluous to me. Deleting
them made pacman -Syu (right after a disk flush) about 10s faster (70%
less syscalls). Here's the patch:
http://pastebin.archlinux.fr/406557
better send your patch inline to be reviewed
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Super_Quick_Git_Guide#Sending_patches
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