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[-] Peasley@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 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.

[-] eruchitanda@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

'On my machine it works' is not a strong argument, and is highly unlikely, due to the language it was written in.

Pacman is written in C, APT in C++, DNF in Python, and Zypper in C++ as well.

So, no. Pacman 'wins'.

What truly matters is which tool is best suited for your use case.

[-] Zangoose@lemmy.one 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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)

[-] sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.works 10 points 7 months ago

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

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