Vadim Nasardinov writes: > On Friday 11 March 2005 14:04, Andrew Haley wrote: > > > Does this get amortized so that you don't regenerate it for each package > > > in a transaction? Otherwise are we getting O(n^2) work? > > > > It's very fast. 0.7 seconds for all of jonas, and that's 300 jarfiles > > and 40,000 classes. > > That doesn't answer his question though, does it? No, it doesn't, but it does suggest that it's a second order effect and so probably not worth worrying about for the time being. There is an N^2 effect, yes. But if we're to do anything more sophisticated maybe RPM will have to have some sort of new functionality. Andrew.