Arch Linux

Here's a patch that speeds up searching.


Search for xorg:
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$ time pacman -Ss xorg

current/xorg 11R6.8.1-1
A fork of the XFree86 Project with a GPL-compatible license
extra/xfree86 4.4.0-3
Freely redistributable implementation of the X Window System

real 0m6.303s
user 0m1.168s
sys 0m3.995s

$ time ./pacman -Ss xorg

current/xorg 11R6.8.1-1
A fork of the XFree86 Project with a GPL-compatible license
extra/xfree86 4.4.0-3
Freely redistributable implementation of the X Window System

real 0m0.366s
user 0m0.123s
sys 0m0.234s


Search for kde:
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$ time pacman -Ss kde >1

real 0m5.513s
user 0m1.094s
sys 0m3.502s

$ time ./pacman -Ss kde >2

real 0m0.355s
user 0m0.110s
sys 0m0.234s

$ ls -l 1 2
-rw-r--r-- 1 ttrantal users 7682 Oct 4 11:50 1
-rw-r--r-- 1 ttrantal users 7682 Oct 4 11:50 2

$ md5sum 1 2
254e5156e7f72201399447f8bca6f85b 1
254e5156e7f72201399447f8bca6f85b 2


Search for multiple targets:
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$ time pacman -Ss gnome kde xorg qt mozilla >1

real 0m25.242s
user 0m5.370s
sys 0m18.549s

$ time ./pacman -Ss gnome kde xorg qt mozilla >2

real 0m0.916s
user 0m0.302s
sys 0m0.588s

$ ls -l 1 2
-rw-r--r-- 1 ttrantal users 20062 Oct 4 11:57 1
-rw-r--r-- 1 ttrantal users 20062 Oct 4 11:57 2

$ md5sum 1 2
e97040100c1dde291ea0a0ba634ceac5 1
e97040100c1dde291ea0a0ba634ceac5 2