3 ms·

Alternatively: Downloading the entire state of all packages when you care about just one, it never works out. O(1) beats O(n) as n gets large.

• gruez 10mo ago
  Seems to still work out for apt?
  • ajb 10mo ago
    Not in the same sense. An analogy might be: apt is like fetching a git repo in which all the packages are submodules, so lazily fetched. Some of the package managers in the article seem to be using a monorepo for all packages - including the content. Others seem to have different issues - go wasn't including enough information in the top level, so all the submodules had to be fetched anyway. vcpkg was doing something with tree hashes which meant they weren't really addressible.
  • collinmanderson 10mo ago
    I consider apt kinds slow. I wish it were much faster.