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

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

2014-01-23 19:34 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.


I agree that start-up performance and other operations are much more
annoying.  (Unrelatedly but similarly very noticeable and annoying for
me, pdiffs in the last few years for people with even modest
connections).

I think that adding many repositories, e.g. Debian + Ubuntu, Mint or
others (Raspbian or EmDebian, because or this ARM thing?), might also
add to the problem.

That's why I am not sure if it's better to leave this open or close
it.  Realistically, I don't think that this is going to be fixed, and
in any case not because of the existence of this problem, so leaving
it open will not increase the chances of it being fixed.  Also it was
ignored for the best part of 4 years with no "me toos".

I only see it useful as a reminder, or to leave hints like what you
gave above.

Opinions?


Cheers.
--
Manuel