Hi, On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, mlandres@svn.opensuse.org wrote:

Author: mlandres Date: Tue Dec 18 21:49:35 2007 New Revision: 8127

URL: http://svn.opensuse.org/viewcvs/zypp?rev=8127&view=rev Log: - Changed ResKind implementation to use IdStr. - split Solvable ident into kind/name - map src/nosrc Solvables to kind(SrcPackage) and arch(noarch)

I think it would be better if either libzypp would do away with the Solvable kind altogether, or implement this so that it doesn't take up any space in the libzypp wrapper of the sat Solvable structure. I can't really see how fantastically usefull the kind is to deserve it having an own member. The only uses I can imagine are of the type "give me only Patches" or "don't search Patterns" and the like. The old solver also uses them in Dependencies, but let's ignore that, as it's going away. So, in all cases you already have a Solvable, hence the complete SAT Name, which includes the "type". I think it would be better to compute the kind from that whenever it's necessary, instead of storing it. It can be done quite fast when we assume that ':' doesn't occur normally in a name (we can assume that): int solv2kind (Solvable *s) { if (s->arch == ARCH_SRC || s->arch == ARCH_NOSRC) return KIND_SOURCEPACK; const char *name = id2str(s->name); // make sure we have four characters if (!(name[0] && name[1] && name[2] && name[3])) return KIND_PACKAGE; int len = 0; int kind = 0; switch (name[3]) { // we look at the fourth character --------v case 'm': len = 4; kind = KIND_ATOM; break; // atom case 'g': len = 8; kind = KIND_LANGUAGE; break; // language case 's': len = 7; kind = KIND_MESSAGE; break; // message case 'c': len = 5; kind = KIND_PATCH; break; // patch case 't': len = 7; kind = KIND_PATTERN; break; // pattern case 'd': len = 7; kind = KIND_PRODUCT; break; // product case 'e': len = 9; kind = KIND_SELECTION; break; // selection case 'i': len = 6; kind = KIND_SCRIPT; break; // script default: return KIND_PACKAGE; } int i; // make sure string doesn't end before the position of the ':' for (i = 4; i < len && name[i]; i++) ; if (i == len && name[i] == ':') return kind; return KIND_PACKAGE; } This needs to touch just one cache line of something which most probably is in cache already (the name) and hence is only slower by a couple of cycles compared to directly having the kind stored away. But it saves half the size of Solvables. Ciao, Michael. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: zypp-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: zypp-devel+help@opensuse.org