From: Morten Welinder Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 15:18:20 GMT Subject: Re: Mercurial 0.4b vs git patchbomb benchmark Message-ID: <118833cc05042908181d09bdfd@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: > I had three design goals. "disk space" wasn't one of them And, if at some point it should become an issue, it's fixable. Since access to objects is fairly centralized and since they are immutable, it would be quite simple to move an arbitrary selection of the objects into some other storage form which could take similarities between objects into account. If you chose the selection of objects with care -- say those for files that have changed many times since -- it shouldn't even hurt performance of day-to-day tasks (which aren't likely to ever need those objects). So disk space and its cousin number-of-files are both when-and-if problems. And not scary ones at that. Morten