Comment 14 for bug 512096

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

> I agree that (subjectively - I haven't timed it) it seems somewhat slower.

Just to throw in some numbers for comparison:

$ sudo time dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/openoffice.org-common_1%3a3.2.0-7ubuntu3_all.deb
-> 64 s
$ sudo time /home/dchroot/karmic/usr/bin/dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/openoffice.org-common_1%3a3.2.0-7ubuntu3_all.deb
-> 21 s

given that the 5 triggers alone take some 10 s, this is a times-5 performance penalty (and load goes to 1.8 in the first run, which makes the machine quite sluggish).

But of course correctness > performance.