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bug#29654: Manual database index.db embeds timestamps
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From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
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Subject: |
bug#29654: Manual database index.db embeds timestamps |
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Date: |
Fri, 15 Dec 2017 22:54:06 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (gnu/linux) |
address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:
> I was already motivated to create the database directly from Scheme
> (‘man-db’ is quite slow), so that gave me an additional excuse. ;-)
FWIW, on my profile with 237 packages corresponding to 19,122 man pages,
on a warm cache, (guix man-db) takes ~8 seconds whereas the previous
method (invoking ‘man-db’) takes ~26 seconds.
My guess is that the main difference is due to not forking a gzip
process for each man page.
Ludo’.