Subject: Re: [bug#39258] [PATCH 2/4] ui: Use string matching with literal search strings.

From: zimoun <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2020 15:36:57 +0200

Dear Arun,

On Sat, 13 Jun 2020 at 18:07, Arun Isaac <[email-masked]> wrote:

>> How does this affect performance?
>
> See my results from earlier.
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> time ./pre-inst-env guix search game
>
> real	0m2.261s
> user	0m2.351s
> sys	0m0.104s
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> time guix search game
>
> real	0m2.661s
> user	0m2.843s
> sys	0m0.080s
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

I confirm that it changes nothing.  See [1].

1: http://issues.guix.gnu.org/39258#112

On the other hand, on my machine I do not see any timing improvement with
this patch set.  Could you check that you are comparing apple to apple?

All the best,
simon