Re: How To Build A Perl Package Database

[email protected] (Leon Timmermans)
Newsgroups perl.cpan.workers
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On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 12:33 AM, Adam Kennedy <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'll say it a second time...
>
> Packlist 2.0
>
> Take MYMETA, add an extra key with the list that will be installed, intall
> it in the usual place as we do now.
>
> Package manager scans the filesystem for the packlist files.
>
> Might seem slow,

A cold «time echo q | instmodsh >/dev/null» takes 22 seconds on my
local perl (hot it takes 0.8 seconds). I have no reason to assume the
new system would be faster (it might even be slower since it has to
parse the data). Not to mention it's trashing your caches.

> but on SSDs scanning the filesystem like that is super
> super fast.

Maybe, but not everyone is using those…

Leon
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