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As discussed in https://stackoverflow.com/a/4435752/1710392 , CPython has an optimization for statements in the form "a = a + b" or "a += b". It seems that this line does not get optimized, because it has a form a = a + b + c: data = data + "./" + f.split("/./")[1] For that reason, it does a copy of data for each iteration, potentially copying megabytes of data for each iteration. Changing this line causes SignatureGeneratorBasic::get_taskhash to take 0.06 seconds instead of 45 seconds on my test setup where SRC_URI points to a big directory. Note that PEP8 recommends explicitely not to use this optimization which is specific to CPython: "do not rely on CPython’s efficient implementation of in-place string concatenation for statements in the form a += b or a = a + b" However, the PEP8 recommended form using "join()" also does not avoid the copy and takes 45 seconds in my test setup: data = ''.join((data, "./", f.split("/./")[1])) I have changed the other lines to also use += for consistency only, however those were in the form a = a + b and were optimized already. Co-authored-by: JJ Robertson <jrobertson@snap.com> (Bitbake rev: 590ae6fde9da75db3a368e5c0d47920696c33ebf) Signed-off-by: Etienne Cordonnier <ecordonnier@snap.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> (cherry picked from commit 195750f2ca355e29d51219c58ecb2c1d83692717) Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Bitbake
BitBake is a generic task execution engine that allows shell and Python tasks to be run efficiently and in parallel while working within complex inter-task dependency constraints. One of BitBake's main users, OpenEmbedded, takes this core and builds embedded Linux software stacks using a task-oriented approach.
For information about Bitbake, see the OpenEmbedded website: https://www.openembedded.org/
Bitbake plain documentation can be found under the doc directory or its integrated html version at the Yocto Project website: https://docs.yoctoproject.org
Contributing
Please refer to https://www.openembedded.org/wiki/How_to_submit_a_patch_to_OpenEmbedded for guidelines on how to submit patches, just note that the latter documentation is intended for OpenEmbedded (and its core) not bitbake patches (bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org) but in general main guidelines apply. Once the commit(s) have been created, the way to send the patch is through git-send-email. For example, to send the last commit (HEAD) on current branch, type:
git send-email -M -1 --to bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org
Mailing list:
https://lists.openembedded.org/g/bitbake-devel
Source code:
https://git.openembedded.org/bitbake/
Testing:
Bitbake has a testsuite located in lib/bb/tests/ whichs aim to try and prevent regressions. You can run this with "bitbake-selftest". In particular the fetcher is well covered since it has so many corner cases. The datastore has many tests too. Testing with the testsuite is recommended before submitting patches, particularly to the fetcher and datastore. We also appreciate new test cases and may require them for more obscure issues.