Re: [PATCH 1/3] Add caching to catpkgsplit function

Il 06/07/20 17:50, Michael 'veremitz' Everitt ha scritto:
> On 06/07/20 16:26, Francesco Riosa wrote:
>> Il 29/06/20 03:58, Sid Spry ha scritto:
>>> There are libraries that provide decorators, etc, for caching and
>>> memoization.
>>> Have you evaluated any of those? One is available in the standard library:
>>> https://docs.python.org/dev/library/functools.html#functools.lru_cache
>>>
>>> I comment as this would increase code clarity.
>>>
>> I think portage developers try hard to avoid external dependancies
>> I hope hard they do
>>
>>
> I think the key word here is 'external' - anything which is part of the
> python standard library is game for inclusion in portage, and has/does
> provide much needed optimisation. Many of the issues in portage are
> so-called "solved problems" in computing terms, and as such, we should take
> advantage of these to improve performance at every available opportunity.
> Of course, there are presently only one, two or three key developers able
> to make/test these changes (indeed at scale) so progress is often slower
> than desirable in current circumstances...
>
> [sent direct due to posting restrictions...]
yes I've replied too fast and didn't notice Sid was referring to 
_standard_ libraries (not even recent additions)

sorry for the noise

- Francesco