Subject: Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/mk
To: Dan McMahill <dmcmahill@netbsd.org>
From: Luke Mewburn <lukem@netbsd.org>
List: pkgsrc-changes
Date: 01/05/2003 10:38:24
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 12:20:48AM +0200, Dan McMahill wrote:
  | Modified Files:
  | 	pkgsrc/mk: bsd.pkg.mk
  | 
  | Log Message:
  | redo the README.html target for increased speed.  For packages with
  | no dependencies the speedup is about 2x for ones like gnome with
  | lots of dependencies, the speedup is aroud 400x.  The speedup is
  | obtained by generating the dependency list in a more efficient way that
  | only takes 1 make call per dependency instead of potentially many many
  | make calls.

wow!

got any rough "timing tests" on how long it used to take to do the
entire tree versus how long it takes now?