Bug#877418: dh-strip-nondeterminism: kills clojure performance

[Chris Lamb]

Hi Rob,

> Or rather, if Clojure's only looking at the timestamps in the jar file,
> then those may have a known (fixed) resolution, and so we'd just need to
> make sure that the .clj files are at least that much older than the
> corresponding .class files inside the jar.

Right; that's:

> >  b) We make strip-nondetermism subtract 1 second from the .clj files'
> >     target modification times so it matches with the existing ">".

.. is it not? :)

> Though I'd probably still pick 1s or more just so that an unpacked jar
> will still have the right timestamp ordering on the vast majority of
> filesystems.

I don't quite get what you mean I'm afraid. Filesystem ordering (at least
via readdir/listdir, etc.) is non-deterministic. Can you explain it to me
another way? I'd also be curious to know why you think *more* than one
second could ever be needed here. I think I'm mising something.


Regards,

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