• Peasley@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      I guess I’m smart enough to install opensuse, but dumb enough that I somehow got slow pacman.

      I kid you not, on my hardware zypper is the fastest between ubuntu apt, fedora dnf, and arch pacman. dnf was the second-fastest on my hardware, with apt and pacman being pretty sluggish

      I’ve also used portage which was even slower, but probably not a fair comparison considering how much more complex it is.

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          6 months ago

          In the grand scheme of things the difference between C, C++, and Python isn’t meaningful when operating over a network (edit: for a single-user system). It’s very likely that the difference for thread OP is just caused by weaker connections to specific repos.

          We’re talking about a package manager, not a game, network server, etc. On a basic level the package manager only needs to download files from a network and install them (OS syscalls for reading/writing files, these are exposed C functions or assembly routines), or delegate to a specific package’s build setup (which will also likely be written in a compiled language)

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          Trust me my friend, a person can make a c program that’s much, much slower than one in python. That’s a meaningless point.

          Sure, c allows for more control and thus the possibility for a quicker program but that’s just it, a possibility.

          Zipper, though written in c++, can only download one thing at a time. This is why it’s so slow