Package: lintian X-Debbugs-Cc: samuel...@debian.org Version: 2.111.0 Severity: wishlist
I'd like to request lintian to make use of multiple threads when performing its evaluations, I came to notice that running lintian against the curl package takes a few seconds (on a powerful machine) and it uses only a single thread. I believe there could be noticeable performance gains from using all the threads available. Although I don't know how feasible that is with lintian+perl. Note that I didn't go all the way to debugging lintian to confirm it's single-threaded, I only noticed that I had a thread on 100% while lintian was running and I'm considering this to be good evidence. Worst case scenario the maintainer can clarify I'm wrong (I know there's some chance lintian is actually multi-threaded but it was waiting for something else that's single-threaded). Thanks, -- Samuel Henrique <samueloph>
