[MacPorts] #71307: `portindex` is very slow on PPC macOS 10.4

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#71307: `portindex` is very slow on PPC macOS 10.4
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  Reporter:  glebm   |      Owner:  (none)
      Type:  defect  |     Status:  new
  Priority:  Normal  |  Milestone:
 Component:  base    |    Version:  2.10.4
Resolution:          |   Keywords:
      Port:          |
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Changes (by jmroot):

 * type:  request => defect


Comment:

 If you don't have an existing PortIndex to update, it's parsing every
 Portfile. That can easily take 20 minutes single-threaded on recent
 hardware, so I'm not at all surprised that it takes many hours under qemu.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/71307#comment:2>
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