#288: the package indexes are very slow ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Reporter: duncan | Owner: Type: defect | Status: closed Priority: normal | Milestone: cabal-install-0.14 Component: cabal-install tool | Version: HEAD Severity: normal | Resolution: fixed Keywords: | Difficulty: easy (<4 hours) Ghcversion: 6.8.2 | Platform: ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Changes (by kosmikus): * status: new => closed * resolution: => fixed * milestone: => cabal-install-0.14 Comment: This is done: {{{ Sun Oct 23 23:32:53 CEST 2011 Duncan Coutts * Add a source package index cache to speed up reading e.g. about 3x faster for cabal info pkgname }}} Some timings using a list of all packages from Hackage (~4000 packages): * with cabal-install-0.10.2: more than 8 minutes (didn't wait for it to finish) * with cabal-install-0.13.3: 2 minutes 44 seconds * with cabal-install-0.13.3 and modular solver: 49 seconds Of course, this package list results in an error. -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/288#comment:9 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects