portage-ng / portage / dev-build / ninja / 1.13.2
emerge -vp

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies ... done!
Dependency resolution took 1.57 s (backtrack: 0/20).

[ebuild     UD ] dev-build/ninja-1.13.2::gentoo [1.13.2-r1::gentoo] USE="-doc -test" 286 KiB

Total: 1 package (1 downgrade), Size of downloads: 286 KiB

Wall time
2.576 s vs. 0.005 s for portage-ng