On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 4:14 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'd be super-interested in benchmarks comparing before and after > install times. I guess since the plan is to do this _after_ the mass > rebuild, we'll need to wait until after the *next* rebuild to see how > much impact this has. I don't think this single change will make a huge difference within the existing ecosystem, but I think it's an important step in a larger shift toward make package installation & image composition a) introspectable and b) deterministic, so that we _can_ make installs/composes faster and more reliable. I talked about all the reasons eliminating/reducing scriptlets is a good idea (and how we can actually do it) at Flock and at DevConf[1], but since you're asking about speed specifically, I can say that with the weldr[2] proof-of-concept tooling (which skips scriptlets) we can build a system image in about 6 seconds[3], where the current tools took 5+ minutes to build an image with the same contents[4]. So: before-and-after install times within Fedora probably won't change much immediately, but these kinds of changes are important to enable future work that will eventually give us dramatically faster and more reliable tooling. -w [1] If you want to know more about the proposed Scriptlet Reforms you could watch the recording from DevConf: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE-8ZRISFqA#t=2m33 (Or: just ask me to explain more and I'll be all too happy to talk about it!) [2] http://weldr.io/ [3] I played a short recorded demo showing this during the talk, 10m52s in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE-8ZRISFqA#t=10m52 [4] To be fair, those numbers are from comparisons I ran by hand 6 months ago. But we'll start doing regular benchmarks after we've finished a few missing bits and landed the code in Fedora. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
