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

[Ludovic Courtès]

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:

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

Good!  Fixed the typo you mentioned on IRC and pushed as
e778910bdfc68c60a5be59aac93049d32feae904.

To summarize, the INFERIOR=y case still takes about twice as long as the
INFERIOR=n case (before that it was actually 9 times slower).

I suppose this is mostly due to the round trips between the inferior and
the parent (one per package).  We’d have to analyze more closely, for
example with ‘perf timechart’, where the wait times are.  It’ll always
be slower than without an inferior though.

Last, we should improve the baseline (4s here for the manifest you
gave).  That’s the tricky part.

Thanks,
Ludo’.