snapcraft 2.38 is very slow
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Current evaluation
A performance regression in snapcraft 2.38 was abandoned and closed without resolution or comments. No fix or merge was implemented.
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Issue body
Install snapcraft 2.35 from the stable channel. Snapping a typical thing (dump some binaries and pull in some libraries as stage packages) using cleanbuild takes about this long:-
real 5m55.211s
user 0m19.090s
sys 0m2.439s
The exact same snap in 2.38 takes approximately 25-35 minutes. 5-7 times longer. This is quite a productivity hit. It seems to spend a long time during prime - possibly patchelf stuff happening? It seems to peg one core at 100%. Whatever it is, it's slowed me down dramatically.
real 25m29.593s
user 0m18.898s
sys 0m2.497s
Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | A performance regression in snapcraft 2.38 was abandoned and closed without resolution or comments. No fix or merge was implemented. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Closed without resolution or fix. No follow-up comments or patches were provided, indicating the report was abandoned. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Closed without resolution or comments. The snapcraft 2.38 performance regression during the prime step remains unfixed, indicating the report was abandoned. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 | — | — | Closed and abandoned without resolution. The snapcraft 2.38 performance regression during the prime step received no comments or fixes. |
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Related issues
| Issue | Project | State | Summary | Similarity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1761598 Snapcraft modifies binaries | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Closed without resolution. Snapcraft 2.39.2 and 2.40.1 modified binaries by adding 4096 bytes, a regression from 2.35. The report was abandoned with no comments or fix applied. | |
| #1769551 snapcraft 2.42 not working in trusty armhf | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Closed without comments or resolution. The author reverted to version 2.41, indicating the issue was abandoned or superseded by newer releases. | |
| #1761488 snapcraft 2.39.2 failed to release a snap: snapcraft.storeapi.errors.StoreReleaseError: <exception str() failed> | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Closed without resolution. The report details a StoreReleaseError during snapcraft 2.39.2 release attempts. With zero maintainer comments and significant age, the issue was likely abandoned. No fix or workaround was provided. | |
| #1787373 snapcraft does not use the C yaml parser | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Closed without action or comments, the performance report regarding snapcraft's use of the slow PyYAML parser instead of the C implementation was abandoned. No fix was applied. |