Regression in speed of key listing

[Jean-David Beyer]

Ingo Kl=F6cker wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> KMail reads the list of public key with the following command line
> LANGUAGE=3DC gpg --batch --list-public-keys --with-fingerprint \=20
> --with-colons --fixed-list-mode --no-expensive-trust-checks
>=20
> With GnuPG 1.2.1 this is pretty quick:
>=20
>>time gnupg-1.2.1/g10/gpg --batch --list-public-keys \=20
>=20
> --with-fingerprint  --with-colons --fixed-list-mode \=20
> --no-expensive-trust-checks >/dev/null
>=20
> real    0m0.638s
> user    0m0.570s
> sys     0m0.020s
>=20
> And with GnuPG 1.2.2 it's horribly slow:
>=20
>>time gnupg-1.2.2/g10/gpg --batch --list-public-keys \=20
>=20
> --with-fingerprint --with-colons --fixed-list-mode \=20
> --no-expensive-trust-checks >/dev/null
>=20
> real    0m15.929s
> user    0m13.230s
> sys     0m2.070s
>=20
> What's the reason for this slowdown? Which option has to be added to=20
> speed it up?
>=20
Similar to what I get.

valinux:jdbeyer[~]$ cat frammis
/usr/bin/gpg --version
/usr/local/bin/gpg --version
time /usr/bin/gpg --batch --list-public-keys --with-fingerprint=20
--with-colons --fixed-list-mode --no-expensive-trust-checks >/dev/null
time /usr/local/bin/gpg --batch --list-public-keys --with-fingerprint=20
--with-colons --fixed-list-mode --no-expensive-trust-checks >/dev/null
valinux:jdbeyer[~]$ ./frammis
gpg (GnuPG) 1.0.7                         <---<<<
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.

Home: ~/.gnupg
Supported algorithms:
Cipher: 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH
Pubkey: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA, ELG
Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160
gpg (GnuPG) 1.2.2                         <---<<<
Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.

Home: ~/.gnupg
Supported algorithms:
Pubkey: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA, ELG
Cipher: 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH
Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256
Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB

real	0m0.254s
user	0m0.240s
sys	0m0.020s

real	0m1.307s
user	0m1.140s
sys	0m0.170s
valinux:jdbeyer[~]$



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