portage-ng / portage / net-mail / mu / 1.14.4-r1
emerge -vp

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

Calculating dependencies ... done!
Dependency resolution took 1.11 s (backtrack: 0/20).

[ebuild  N     ] dev-cpp/cli11-2.7.2::gentoo  USE="-doc -test" 1414 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] dev-cpp/expected-1.3.1::gentoo  24 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] dev-libs/gmime-3.2.15-r2:3.0::gentoo  USE="crypt -doc -idn -test -vala" 2182 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] dev-libs/xapian-2.1.0:0/45::gentoo  USE="-debug -static-libs -verify-sig" CPU_FLAGS_X86="sse sse2" 3439 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] net-mail/mu-1.14.4-r1::gentoo  USE="readline -emacs -guile -test" GUILE_SINGLE_TARGET="3-0" 858 KiB

Total: 5 packages (5 new), Size of downloads: 7915 KiB

Wall time
2.090 s vs. 0.042 s for portage-ng