On Samstag 17 Oktober 2009, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 11:30:32 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > My point was that using eix is faster than posting to the list and > > > awaiting a reply. The same is not necessarily true of emerge -s :( > > > > depends on your harddisk and filesystem. emerge -s can be as fast as > > eix on my box. > > On a reasonably fast system (dual core 64 bit with RAID5 over SATA2): > > eix lafilefixer 0.03s user 0.01s system 13% cpu 0.288 total > emerge -s lafilefixer 1.37s user 0.19s system 63% cpu 2.460 total > > almost ten times as long. > > On a much slower system, Dell Mini 10: > > eix lafilefixer 0.17s user 0.05s system 17% cpu 1.251 total > emerge -s lafilefixer 8.64s user 1.46s system 42% cpu 23.803 total > > Nearer twenty times as long. > > So the conclusion is that if you spend enough on hardware, emerge -s is > only ten times slower than eix :-O >
and the difference is still just a second