From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <32d987d50912100925g6594678ay59ed76e5684ad8f0@mail.gmail.com> References: <32d987d50912100925g6594678ay59ed76e5684ad8f0@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:31:20 +0100 Message-ID: <8ccc8ba40912100931n3c2c28bal690b729dfc69691b@mail.gmail.com> From: Francisco J Ballesteros To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] a faster contrib(1) Topicbox-Message-UUID: ae3772ce-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Why .iso.bz2? Wasn't .tgz enough? Just wondering. On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Federico G. Benavento wrote: > hola, > > we've been thinking about making contrib faster for some time > now and we finally got something significantly speed improvemnets. > > It still uses replica but instead of pulling from sources, it grabs a > .iso.bz2 for the package, mounts it and pulls from there (locally), the > old behaviour is still supported, in fact if the iso.bz2 isn't found > it falls back to the old behavior. > > pushes are still slow as it maintains the old behavior of updating > /n/sources/contrib/$usr/root/ so you don't loose the ability of > diffing code against sources. > > I'll upload it in a bit, but I'd like to hear if you have any comments fi= rst > > old: > 0.61u 7.03s 4600.28r =C2=A0 =C2=A0 contrib/install fgb/openssl > > new: > 2.91u 6.06s 55.37r =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 contrib/install fgb/openssl > > > -- > Federico G. Benavento > >