[bitbake-devel] [PATCH 0/2] Variable tracking: Cleaned up and rebased.

[Richard Purdie]

On Wed, 2013-01-16 at 17:54 +0000, Richard Purdie wrote:
> I *really* want to take these, however I did want to check performance:
> 
> Before:
> 
> $ time bitbake core-image-sato -e
> real	0m8.034s
> $ time bitbake -p
> real	0m12.220s
> user	3m3.887s
> 
> After:
> 
> $ time bitbake core-image-sato -e
> real	0m50.267s
> $ time bitbake -p
> real	0m14.607s
> user	3m55.179s
> 
> 
> The 50s seems a touch excessive and it looks like a 20% parsing hit even
> when unused :(. Note the overall parsing times on this machine are fast
> as its running 24 in parallel. I'm going to try and figure out what is
> going on tomorrow as I've fixed a lot of this kind of thing in the past
> but wanted to mention it...

For those wanting to play:

bitbake core-image-sato -e -P

and looking at profile.log.processed shows 48 *million* calls to
deepcopy. That is a big clue to the problem.

Cheers,

Richard