Re: pkgsrc scanning performance benchmarks

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 03:35:50PM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 07:29:27AM -0600, John Marino wrote:
> > This is reproducible.  If you proposed a fix, you could measure exactly 
> > the effect using the same machine with synth.
> 
> It is already measurable on a single invocation in wm/xfce4-wm:
> it takes 4.2 seconds on my notebook and forks 2158 times.
> 
> This breaks down to 615 make, 1076 sh, 157 pkg_admin and 10 pkg_info
> calls. The remaining invocations are a small number of
> awk echo env file gcc grep id lex msgfmt perl pwd python2.7 sed
> uname.

E.g. gtk2 has to deal with the optional X11 support.

Joerg