Re: pkgsrc performance

[Aleksey Cheusov <cheusov%tut.by@localhost>]

>> We could surely avoid that by changing _all_ these files to the order
>> known from C header files:
>
> I wonder if that can't be automated via some perl magic.
> At least to a point where we see if there's any actual benefit.

This is already implemented about year ago (awk+sh) and is a part of
wip/pkg_summary-utils. See also pkg_update_src_summary(1) and others.

Athlon-800/NetBSD-5

0 ~>time -p pkg_micro_src_summary -f PKGNAME,PKGPATH,COMMENT 
x11/gnome-control-center
PKGNAME=gnome-control-center-2.24.0.1nb3
PKGPATH=x11/gnome-control-center
COMMENT=GNOME2 configuration utility

real     0.16
user     0.08
sys      0.07
0 ~>

-- 
Best regards, Aleksey Cheusov.