Darcs

[Ian Lynagh]

On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 04:31:02PM +0000, Simon Marlow wrote:
>
> Maybe it's worse on non-partial repositories, but for example:
> 
> $ time darcs cha Makefile --last=1000
> ...
> 54.27s real   52.70s user   0.36s system   97% darcs cha Makefile
> 
> That's stretching my definition of "a few" :-)  And for this to be usable 

FWIW my numbers agree with Claus

$ time darcs changes Makefile --last=1000 > /dev/null
6.93s user 0.18s system 97% cpu 7.299 total
$ time darcs changes Makefile > /dev/null
56.98s user 4.36s system 89% cpu 1:08.82 total
$ darcs --version
1.0.9rc1 (release candidate 1)

This is with a complete repo (and I'm pretty sure it doesn't make a
difference).

> for a web interface, it really needs to be a sub-second response.

This is still true, of course.


Thanks
Ian