Re: Looking for speed increases in "make index" and pkg_version for ports

On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 08:34:29PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
On 2007-May-27 15:30:48 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This sounds like a good solution. In fact, I'm lead to believe that
heavy reliance on /bin/sh is part of why the ports collection is slow.

Someone needs to enable accounting on a recent -current (with the
high-resolution accounting records) and look at where the time is
actually going. (My -current box needs upgrading before I could
do this).

The best I was able to do: I have a 6.2-RELEASE box which contains
profiled libraries, and managed to make a profiled /bin/sh. This
didn't take much work (just some modification of src/bin/sh/Makefile),
but one thing which did stump me was the .gmon file never getting written.
Turns out trap.c calls _exit(2) not exit(3). Change that and voila.

Admittedly I'm not that familiar with gprof, and I'm also left wondering
if profiling /bin/sh is going to help us, since we don't have a direct
way of determining which shell commands take the most time -- just which
C functions are most heavily used.

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