Re: Package caching

>>>>> "Ben" == Ben Wing <[email protected]> writes:

Ben> Well, in that case my strategy would require only a single stat, not a stat
Ben> of each directory.  I was assuming you had to stat each file of each
Ben> directory to see if it was a subdirectory.

No.  We used to do that very early in the game, but no longer.  The
relevant definitions that control this aspect of path searching are
these:

(defvar packages-hierarchy-depth 1
  "Depth of package hierarchies.")

(defvar packages-load-path-depth 1
  "Depth of load-path search in package hierarchies.")

(defvar packages-data-path-depth 1
  "Depth of data-path search in package hierarchies.")

Ben> Btw I just did an strace under Cygwin and found some interesting things.
Ben> Unfortunately the results appear skewed; could some people under Unix run
Ben> strace (trace, truss, etc.) and send me the results? [...]

Yes---these are all stats where we would benefit from getting rid of
them.  But they're all below the level of the path searching.

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Cheers =8-} Mike
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