[Aptitude-devel] Bug#573626: Bug#573626: aptitude: Terrible Interactive Search Performance

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
> I never noticed this as a problem in desktops or servers, even on
> old pieces of hardware,

I agree.

> but it might happen that with some architectures they struggle.

Even on my slowest boxes (Alix, Sparcs, PowerMac G4, cheap VMs, ARM
netbook, DEC Alpha, 1st generation EeePC, etc.) I've never felt this
being an issue. Startup performance is way more annoying than this, at
least for me. :-)

But then again, I'm also always using two non-default settings which
may speed up usage, too:

* I disabled Aptitude::UI::Incremental-Search as I don't want
  arbitrary branches to be opened during searching.

* I enabled Aptitude::UI::Minibuf-Prompts as I can close that prompt
  with Ctrl-G as in Emacs. :-)

I've just did a short test on my PowerMac G4 and I had the feeling
that searching without these two options is slightly slower.

So these two settings may help people who consider the interactive
search to be too slugish.

		Regards, Axel
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