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APT Speed For Incremental Updates Gets a Massive Performance Boost

Posted by timothy on from the just-the-bit-I-missed dept.

jones_supa writes: Developer Julian Andres Klode has this week made some improvements to significantly increase the speed of incremental updates with Debian GNU/Linux's APT update system. His optimizations have yielded the apt-get program to suddenly yield 10x performance when compared to the old code. These improvements also make APT with PDiff now faster than the default, non-incremental behavior. Beyond the improvements that landed this week, Julian is still exploring other areas for improving APT update performance. More details via his blog post.

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  1. Now only... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If they'd get rid of systemd I'd be a happy camper.

    1. Re:Now only... by chipschap · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I'm missing something here. With all the flap about systemd, why the rush of all the distros to adopt it? I'm on Mint, but even that is slated to go to systemd at the next major release. Binary logs, etc.? No thanks.