[Hackage] #288: the package indexes are very slow

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#288: the package indexes are very slow
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  Reporter:  duncan              |        Owner:                
      Type:  defect              |       Status:  new           
  Priority:  normal              |    Milestone:                
 Component:  cabal-install tool  |      Version:  1.2.3.0       
  Severity:  normal              |   Resolution:                
  Keywords:                      |   Difficulty:  hard (< 1 day)
Ghcversion:  6.8.2               |     Platform:                
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Comment (by duncan):

 Partially fixed for common cases with:

 {{{
 Sat Jun  7 15:39:13 BST 2008  Duncan Coutts <duncan at haskell.org>
   * Only inspect the needed parts of the installed and available indexes
   The available package index is loaded lazily so if we can avoid
   forcing all the packages then we can save a huge amount of slow text
   parsing. So select out the maximal subset of the index that we could
   ever need based on the names of the packages we want to install. For
   the common case of installing just one or two packages this cuts
   down the number of packages we look at by a couple orders of
   magnitude. This does not help with the installed index which is read
   strictly, though most people do not (yet) have hundreds of installed
   packages, so that's less of an immediate problem.
 }}}

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