Re: pbulk: What can I expect from reuse_scan_results?

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

Am Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 02:47:28PM +0100 schrieb Jonathan Perkin:
> * On 2022-04-26 at 14:37 BST, Matthias Petermann wrote:
> 
> > However, it takes the same amount of time as without reuse, and the
> > output on the terminal is the same as the previous run. Is this normal
> > behavior, and if so - what can I generally expect from
> > reuse_scan_results?
> 
> It's normal.  Re-using scan results will improve performance if there aren't
> many changes, but for example devel/gmake was touched in the last few days
> and that will cause pretty much everything to be recomputed, and you won't
> see any difference in runtime.

Actually, touching a pure tool doesn't force a rescan, but touching
something in pkgsrc/mk/ like bsd.prefs.mk will certainly force
everything to be rescanned.

Joerg