Benchmarks
So how does Fquery compare to equery? Here are some random tests.
The following results are between Fquery-0.2 (compiled with ghc-6.4-r1) and gentoolkit-0.2.1 (running Python 2.4.2). Note that Python sometimes takes longer than usual to start up, so the times are taken after multiple runs.
fquery d xorg-x11 > /dev/null 0.16s user 0.04s system 100% cpu 0.191 total
equery d xorg-x11 > /dev/null 1.73s user 0.10s system 99% cpu 1.825 total
fquery d tetex > /dev/null 0.14s user 0.06s system 99% cpu 0.196 total
equery d tetex > /dev/null 1.71s user 0.12s system 99% cpu 1.826 total
fquery d gentoo-sources > /dev/null 0.17s user 0.02s system 98% cpu 0.190 total
equery d gentoo-sources > /dev/null 1.77s user 0.06s system 99% cpu 1.833 total
fquery b /usr/bin/equery > /dev/null 0.15s user 0.01s system 98% cpu 0.162 total
equery b /usr/bin/equery > /dev/null 7.80s user 0.15s system 99% cpu 7.973 total
fquery b /etc/X11/xorg.conf > /dev/null 1.81s user 0.04s system 99% cpu 1.853 total
equery b /etc/X11/xorg.conf > /dev/null 7.78s user 0.14s system 99% cpu 7.924 total
Note that Fquery exits as soon as it has found all of the files specified, hence the time difference between the two cases.
fquery f xorg-x11 > /dev/null 0.13s user 0.00s system 98% cpu 0.138 total
equery f xorg-x11 > /dev/null 1.38s user 0.10s system 99% cpu 1.489 total
fquery f tetex > /dev/null 0.19s user 0.00s system 100% cpu 0.191 total
equery f tetex > /dev/null 1.59s user 0.14s system 100% cpu 1.736 total
fquery f gentoo-sources > /dev/null 0.34s user 0.00s system 99% cpu 0.349 total
equery f gentoo-sources > /dev/null 2.17s user 0.20s system 100% cpu 2.367 total
fquery u mplayer > /dev/null 0.06s user 0.00s system 96% cpu 0.062 total
equery u mplayer > /dev/null 0.92s user 0.05s system 99% cpu 0.974 total
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