Re: Mercurial 0.4b vs git patchbomb benchmark

From: Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>
Date: Apr 29, 2005, 22:30 UTC
Message-ID: <20050429223052.GD28540@dspnet.fr.eu.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050429201957.GJ17379@opteron.random>

On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 10:19:57PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> such a system might fall apart under load, converting on the fly from
> git to network-optimized format sound quite expensive operation, even
> ignorign the initial decompression of the payload.

Nothing a little caching can't solve. Given that git's objects are immutable caching is especially easy to do, you can have the delta reference indexes in the filename.

OG.

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