this post was submitted on 27 Apr 2024
-27 points (22.4% liked)

linuxmemes

21273 readers
422 users here now

Hint: :q!

Sister communities:

Community rules (click to expand)

1. Follow the site-wide rules

2. Be civil
  • Understand the difference between a joke and an insult.
  • Do not harrass or attack members of the community for any reason.
  • Leave remarks of "peasantry" to the PCMR community. If you dislike an OS/service/application, attack the thing you dislike, not the individuals who use it. Some people may not have a choice.
  • Bigotry will not be tolerated.
  • These rules are somewhat loosened when the subject is a public figure. Still, do not attack their person or incite harrassment.
    • 3. Post Linux-related content
  • Including Unix and BSD.
  • Non-Linux content is acceptable as long as it makes a reference to Linux. For example, the poorly made mockery of sudo in Windows.
  • No porn. Even if you watch it on a Linux machine.
    • 4. No recent reposts
  • Everybody uses Arch btw, can't quit Vim, and wants to interject for a moment. You can stop now.

    • Please report posts and comments that break these rules!

    founded 1 year ago
    MODERATORS
    [email protected]
    [email protected]
    [email protected]
    -27
    nuclear take: (lemmy.world)
    submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
    57 comments fedilink hide all child comments
     
    you are viewing a single comment's thread
    view the rest of the comments
    [–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    Wait something can be slower than Zypper? Does it have a bunch of sleep(1) scattered around?

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

    I guess I'm smart enough to install opensuse, but dumb enough that I somehow got slow pacman.

    I kid you not, on my hardware zypper is the fastest between ubuntu apt, fedora dnf, and arch pacman. dnf was the second-fastest on my hardware, with apt and pacman being pretty sluggish

    I've also used portage which was even slower, but probably not a fair comparison considering how much more complex it is.

    [–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    'On my machine it works' is not a strong argument, and is highly unlikely, due to the language it was written in.

    Pacman is written in C, APT in C++, DNF in Python, and Zypper in C++ as well.

    So, no. Pacman 'wins'.

    What truly matters is which tool is best suited for your use case.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

    Trust me my friend, a person can make a c program that's much, much slower than one in python. That's a meaningless point.

    Sure, c allows for more control and thus the possibility for a quicker program but that's just it, a possibility.

    Zipper, though written in c++, can only download one thing at a time. This is why it's so slow

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    In the grand scheme of things the difference between C, C++, and Python isn't meaningful when operating over a network (edit: for a single-user system). It's very likely that the difference for thread OP is just caused by weaker connections to specific repos.

    We're talking about a package manager, not a game, network server, etc. On a basic level the package manager only needs to download files from a network and install them (OS syscalls for reading/writing files, these are exposed C functions or assembly routines), or delegate to a specific package's build setup (which will also likely be written in a compiled language)