bug#48007: computing derivations through inferior takes twice as long

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:
>
>> I tried it in the GWL with the big RNAseq workflow I adopted from PiGx
>> and the step to generate job scripts (which reference inferior packages)
>> became considerably faster.  There is still potential for improvement,
>> but this change is the difference between not too bad (15 seconds) and
>> unusable (> 5 minutes).
>
> Good, that’s a step in the right direction.
>
> I’ve sent in this issue a cleaned up patch series that achieves the same
> result, plus some micro-optimizations.  It’d be great if you could
> confirm it still works for you.

These patches look great to me and they work.
My real-world test case is now down to about 12 seconds.

Thanks!

-- 
Ricardo