Bug#769066: lintian: Consider processing files in disk order

2020-07-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 06:34:05PM -0700, Felix Lechner wrote: > Hi, > > > access files in disk order to increase performance > > What was the speedup in man-db and dpkg, please? ~70% speedup in reinstalling a simple package using dpkg (27 seconds to 8 seconds): https://git.dpkg.org/cgit/dpk

Bug#769066: lintian: Consider processing files in disk order

2020-07-07 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi, > access files in disk order to increase performance What was the speedup in man-db and dpkg, please? Kind regards Felix Lechner

Bug#769066: lintian: Consider processing files in disk order

2014-11-10 Thread Niels Thykier
Package: lintian Version: 2.5.30 Severity: wishlist Colin Watson suggested that it might be prudent to access files in disk order to increase performance. Link to man-db code implementing this below: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/man-db.git/tree/lib/orderfiles.c -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to