#16324: ghc-pkg: Batched package unregister takes time linear to the batch size -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: qrilka | Owner: (none) Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 8.6.3 Keywords: | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple Architecture: | Type of failure: None/Unknown Unknown/Multiple | Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: Differential Rev(s): | Wiki Page: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- When started using batched `ghc-pkg unregister` (implemented in #12637) we have noticed that it did not give much time speed improvements. I've created a simple reproduction of that behavior in https://github.com/qrilka/pkg-db-problems (which is a bit of package db abuse of cause as the same package gets registered multiple times with different ids). The last run of that script gave me: {{{ qrilka@qdesktop ~/ws/h/pkg-db-problems $ ./test.sh Up to date Reading package info from "dist- newstyle/packagedb/ghc-8.6.3/sample-1.0.0-inplace.conf" ... done. sample-1.0.0: Warning: haddock-interfaces: /home/qrilka/ws/h/pkg-db- problems/dist- newstyle/build/x86_64-linux/ghc-8.6.3/sample-1.0.0/doc/html/sample/sample.haddock doesn't exist or isn't a file sample-1.0.0: Warning: haddock-html: /home/qrilka/ws/h/pkg-db-problems /dist-newstyle/build/x86_64-linux/ghc-8.6.3/sample-1.0.0/doc/html/sample doesn't exist or isn't a directory Unregistering single package: real 0m0,196s user 0m0,175s sys 0m0,020s Unregistering 15 packages: real 0m2,471s user 0m2,340s sys 0m0,130s }}} Which clearly shows speed problems. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/16324 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler