On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 16:31 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > seth vidal (skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxx) said: > > so you end up with srpms and debuginfo rpms in there. > > > > So you get 2623 pkgs to read through for fc3 base > > > > but if you just read through binary rpms you only have 1653 pkgs to read > > through. A pretty serious savings, almost 1000 packages. > > What is the amount of time/memory/etc used during reading of this > extraneous data? well you're almost doubling the amount of data to read in/sort through. from what I've seen it goes pretty linearly with the number of nodes. So figure something like a 1/3rd or half as much time to iterate over the nodes. memory size I've not estimated. -sv
