Re: Doubling performance of pkgsrc/mk

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 04:13:15PM +0100, Jonathan Perkin wrote:
> I got fed up with pkgsrc being slow again, so have spent a bit of time
> recently improving performance.
> 
> Here are some benchmarks for the build of pkgtools/url2pkg (chosen as its
> "build" time is very short so exposes any delays with the infrastructure):
> 
>   +----------+---------+--------+-------+
>   | OS       | SmartOS | NetBSD | macOS |
>   +----------+---------+--------+-------+
>   | Baseline |   12.5s |  10.3s |  3.0s |
>   | Patched  |    5.7s |   5.3s |  1.4s |
>   +----------+---------+--------+-------+

Wow, those are great improvements!

> The branch is here:
> 
>   https://github.com/TritonDataCenter/pkgsrc/tree/feature/performance/trunk

Are you looking for some particular feedback, or more testers, or
something else?

What are "ODE"s here? For me that automatically expands to ordinary
differential equations, but I don't think that's what you mean :)
 Thomas