Bug#518453: dpkg-source is 5 times slower than quilt applying patches

2009-03-06 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Package: dpkg Version: 1.14.25 Severity: important On a fast machine (Core 2 Duo), applying all patches of the glibc package with quilt takes 5 seconds. When using the 3.0 (quilt) format, dpkg-source needs 24 seconds to apply them. This is way too long. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0

Bug#518453: dpkg-source is 5 times slower than quilt applying patches

2009-03-06 Thread Raphael Hertzog
reassign 518453 dpkg-dev 1.14.25 user d...@packages.debian.org usertag 518453 dpkg-source thanks On Fri, 06 Mar 2009, Aurelien Jarno wrote: On a fast machine (Core 2 Duo), applying all patches of the glibc package with quilt takes 5 seconds. When using the 3.0 (quilt) format, dpkg-source needs

Bug#518453: dpkg-source is 5 times slower than quilt applying patches

2009-03-06 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 06 Mar 2009, Raphael Hertzog wrote: So it looks like most of the slowness comes from the new code and not from the patch application logic. Some profiling is in order then… The answer was easy (thanks to dam for the hint). If one uses --without-quilt, it's quick again. So the problem