darcs performance

[Sven Panne]

On Sunday 01 April 2007 13:38, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
> Are you using master/slave connections in ssh? This will let you reuse a
> single control connection in ssh, avoiding the need to reauthenticate to
> get each patch (and there's 2 or 3 of these per patch). [...]

I don't think so: darcs uses a few 'scp's to get things going, but then a 
single 'sftp' is started to get all patches, so I very much doubt that this 
will give a significant performance boost.

Anyway, darcs should never force a user to do some weird SSH stuff which I 
guess 99% of all users have never heard about (including me ;-). But thanks 
for a hint at the master/slave connections, perhaps this will be handy in 
some other context.

Cheers,
   S.