From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 15:39:19 GMT Subject: Re: VCS comparison table Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <200610201728.13327.jnareb@gmail.com> Hi, 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. > Probably not indexed by Google, or doesn't have high pagerank because it > is in PDF and fairly new (therefore has low "citations" number). I hope these posts boost the pagerank. Ciao, Dscho