Re: Improving 'bmake wrapper' speed

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

On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 08:02:22PM +0100, Jonathan Perkin wrote:
> * On 2014-08-22 at 14:18 BST, Jonathan Perkin wrote:
> 
> > The patch reduces the runtime for 'bmake wrapper' in net/kppp on a
> > SmartOS zone from this:
> > 
> >   real     2:26.094442113
> >   user       32.463077360
> >   sys      1:48.647178135
> > 
> > to this:
> > 
> >   real       49.648642097
> >   user       14.952946135
> >   sys        33.989975053
> 
> I've performed two from-scratch bulk builds with and without this
> change to see what the real world performance difference is across all
> of pkgsrc:
> 
>   Without:    11hr 2m
>   With:                9hr 55m
> 
> I'll commit this patch this week unless there are any objections.

There are some parts I dislike quite a bit. Will go into details
tomorrow.

Joerg