Re: bob v0.99.x and wip package now available

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

* On 2026-04-11 at 07:47 BST, Jonathan Perkin wrote:

> * On 2026-04-10 at 23:13 BST, Stepan Ipatov wrote:
>
> > I recently switched my package builds over to bob, and I have to say 
> > it works really well — thanks for such a great tool. I haven't run 
> > any precise benchmarks, but subjectively it feels noticeably faster 
> > than pbulk.
>
> Yeh it's significantly faster than pbulk in a number of different 
> places, notably:

FWIW I ran a test to see exactly the difference when comparing an 
up-to-date build, i.e. one that does not involve any package building, 
so we can see precisely the time taken to scan, resolve, and check each 
package for freshness without any actual build noise.

I did a limited_list build of meta-pkgs/bulk-large (1662 packages), then 
ran both 'bob build' and pbulk 'bulkbuild' without updating pkgsrc:

  * bob:    3 mins, 44 secs
  * pbulk: 25 mins, 19 secs

I would expect the gap to widen much further for a full ~30,000 package 
bulk build.  Bob spent the vast majority of its time (3m 31s) purely on 
scanning on this somewhat slower host.

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