Re: [Synaptic-devel] dlNeeded patch

[Panu Matilainen]

On Sun, 30 Nov 2003, Alwin Meschede wrote:

> > I'm worried that this will be too slow on low-end machines. Can
> > someone with a slower machine test if this patch will slow down the
> > creation of the summary window (if you click on execute, this window
> > is created)? I only have a 1200Mhz P3 and I don't really notice it
> > here. I'm interessted in ~200Mhz style machine results :)
> 
> Hi,
> 
> i can slow down my notebook from 1.500 MHz to 187 MHz, here are my 
> experiences with your patch:
> 
> - on a synaptic without the proposed patch, it takes about 5-7 seconds 
> until the window shows up
> - with the patch, the window needs 10-12 seconds to be created
> 
> That's 50 % performance loss. But compared to the time it takes to 
> generate the package tree and the flat list, that's peanuts if you ask me...

It *is* quite a huge performance loss considering what it does: just to
come up with a single non-critical (if useful) number. OTOH like you say,
that's probably still peanuts compared to other Synaptic operations on a
~200MHz box :)

        - Panu -