Re: newbie questions about git design and features (some wrt hg)

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Jan 31, 2007, 15:03 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701310959220.3021@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <3c6c07c20701301938u4d1503a2m3e0af51121b8e6db@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Mike Coleman wrote:

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> As for performance, my thinking was that since hg is implemented
> apparently almost entirely in Python, and has (again apparently)
> generally acceptable performance, this suggested that much of the
> problem might be I/O-bound enough that language efficiency might not
> matter so much.

Matt Mackall said himself that some core portion of hg have been rewritten in C in order to improve performances.

Nicolas

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