On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 09:39:15AM +0100, Michel Talon wrote: > But i am told that this perl solution runs faster than the old pkg_tools of > J. Hubbard which says a lot about what is really important to get good > stuff.
No, it says nothing. Tim Kientzle already showed ages ago that due to the extract+copy at least half of the time is spent due to IO load. Avoiding that is on the short term list for pkg_install, another feature were I want to meet the new pkg_install in the middle. Joerg
