From: Jakub Narebski Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 16:05:39 GMT Subject: Re: VCS comparison table Message-ID: <200610201805.40235.jnareb@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Johannes Schindelin wrote: > On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Jakub Narebski wrote: >> Johannes Schindelin wrote: >>> On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Jakub Narebski wrote: >>> >>>> Christian MICHON wrote: >>>> >>>>> - git is the fastest scm around >>>> >>>> Mercurial also claims that. >>> >>> Funny. When you type in "mercurial" and "benchmark" into Google, the >>> _first_ hit is into "git Archives: Mercurial 0.4b vs git patchbomb >>> benchmark". Performed by the good Mercurial people. >>> >>> Leaving git as winner. >> >> Check out http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitBenchmarks section "Quilt import >> comparison of Git and Mercurial" for the latest (OLS2006) benchmark >> by Mercurial. > > Thanks for the hint! > > BTW the tests in Clone/status/pull make sense, especially the "4 times > slower on pull/merge". In my tests, merge-recur (the default merge > strategy, which was written in Python, and is now in C) was substantially > faster. As it was mentioned somewhere else in this thread, to compare times for pull/merge in git with other SCM one should in principle substract time for diffstat/git diff --stat. -- Jakub Narebski Poland