[pacman-dev] [Bulk] [PATCH] Read .PKGINFO directly from package file

[K. Piche]

On Sat, 2008-03-29 at 14:39 -0500, Dan McGee wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 2:36 PM, K. Piche <kpiche at rogers.com> wrote:
> > Interesting.  I was in the process of reading the whole file into a
> >  buffer and having parse_descfile parse that.  Oh well...
> 
> That is quite similar to Xavier's patch that keeps an internal buffer
> in archive_fgets() in order to reduce calls into libarchive, which
> seems to cut the time by half to parse the entire community DB (.12 vs
> .07 seconds locally on my desktop machine).

True.  We know how large the file is during the archive read from the
entity struct so I figured it would be easier to malloc a buffer and pop
the whole file in it.  Parsing the buffer it would have required
strdup'ing lines but no code would be required for overrunning a line
buffer - all sizes are known.

As an aside: is there any interest in some unit testing code?  I've
looked at the check library and written a few tests for the alpm_list
stuff.  Unfortunately a lot of our functions are difficult to test
individually.  For instance instead of passing a buffer with test data
to test parse_descfile you need to pass an archive.

> No matter how you cut it, not writing a temp file definitely saves time.
> 
> -Dan
> 
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K. Piche <kpiche at rogers.com>