From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 30 May 2002 20:32:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 30 May 2002 20:32:21 -0400 Received: from bitmover.com ([192.132.92.2]:9117 "EHLO bitmover.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 30 May 2002 20:32:20 -0400 Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 17:32:19 -0700 From: Larry McVoy To: David Lang Cc: Daniel Phillips , Ion Badulescu , Keith Owens , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: KBuild 2.5 Impressions Message-ID: <20020530173219.X30298@work.bitmover.com> Mail-Followup-To: Larry McVoy , David Lang , Daniel Phillips , Ion Badulescu , Keith Owens , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 05:09:16PM -0700, David Lang wrote: > don't forget that the kbuild2.5 patch was a lot smaller before keith was > told to "go away and don't bother anyone until the speed problem is fixed" > a large part of the fix was to use the mmapped db stuff that Larry McVoy > made available instead of useing the standard db libraries on the system. wc mdbm.c 1404 4736 32921 mdbm.c Just for the record. MDBM certainly has limitations, but being too many lines of code is not one of them. And it provides ndbm/dbm compat interfaces so you can pull it out and drop in something else if you like. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm