Benchmark Paludis 0.38 and Portage 2.1.6.9

I didn't quite believe the benchmark done by bonsaikitten so I did my own and wasn't able to reproduce the results.

Env (same as bonsai used)

• Portage 2.1.6.9
• Paludis 0.36.0
• hot kernel cache
• no metadata cache in gentoo repo
• no package manager on-disk cache (nuked /var/cache/edb/dep and /var/cache/paludis/metadata/gentoo)

# time emerge -puD sys-apps/portage
real    5m32.896s
user    3m36.263s
sys     1m53.655s

# time paludis -ip sys-apps/portage
real    1m31.509s
user    1m0.432s
sys     0m32.432s

# time paludis -ip sys-apps/portage -E portage (bonsai doesn't have a paludis config)
real    1m36.575s
user    1m2.969s
sys     0m36.501s

And with cold kernel cache (echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches)

# time emerge -puD sys-apps/portage
real    6m25.499s
user    3m34.228s
sys     1m53.624s

# time paludis -ip sys-apps/portage
real    2m38.976s
user    1m3.312s
sys     0m38.318

So reading the necessary ebuilds (and friends) takes roughly a minute on my box.

A little curiosity as a bonus:

# strace -e file paludis -ip sys-apps/portage 2>&1 | wc -l
14219
# strace -e file emerge -puD sys-apps/portage 2>&1 | wc -l
32240

Interesting difference, let's look closer at what portage does:

access("/var/lib/gentoo/repositories/gentoo/sys-devel/autoconf/autoconf-2.63.ebuild",
stat("/var/lib/gentoo/repositories/gentoo/sys-devel/autoconf/autoconf-2.63.ebuild",
open("/var/cache/edb/dep/var/lib/gentoo/repositories/gentoo/sys-devel/autoconf-2.63",
stat("/var/lib/gentoo/repositories/gentoo/sys-devel/autoconf/autoconf-2.63.ebuild",
getcwd("/etc"...,
lstat("/var",
lstat("/var/lib",
lstat("/var/lib/gentoo",
lstat("/var/lib/gentoo/repositories",
lstat("/var/lib/gentoo/repositories/gentoo",
lstat("/home",
lstat("/home/data",
lstat("/home/data/distfiles",
lstat("/usr",
lstat("/usr/portage",
lstat("/usr/portage/rpm",
lstat("/var",
lstat("/var/tmp",
stat("/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autoconf-2.63/temp/environment",
stat("/usr/bin/sandbox",
access("/usr/bin/sandbox",

And the same for each ebuild read from the repo. Highlighted lines are interesting...