Re: [Hackage] #288: the package indexes are very slow

#288: the package indexes are very slow ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Reporter: duncan | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: cabal-install tool | Version: 1.2.3.0 Severity: normal | Resolution: Keywords: | Difficulty: hard (< 1 day) Ghcversion: 6.8.2 | Platform: ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Comment (by duncan): Partially fixed for common cases with: {{{ Sat Jun 7 15:39:13 BST 2008 Duncan Coutts * Only inspect the needed parts of the installed and available indexes The available package index is loaded lazily so if we can avoid forcing all the packages then we can save a huge amount of slow text parsing. So select out the maximal subset of the index that we could ever need based on the names of the packages we want to install. For the common case of installing just one or two packages this cuts down the number of packages we look at by a couple orders of magnitude. This does not help with the installed index which is read strictly, though most people do not (yet) have hundreds of installed packages, so that's less of an immediate problem. }}} -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/288#comment:1 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects