From: Michael Witten Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 16:45:53 GMT Subject: Re: Google Code: Support for Mercurial and Analysis of Git and Mercurial Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <49F475B8.20903@gmail.com> On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 09:54, A Large Angry SCM wrote: > Another important criteria was which, both or neither of Git and Hg would > actually work and perform well on top of Google Code's underling storage > system and except to mention they would be using Bigtable, the report did > not discuss this. Git on top of Bigtable will not perform well. > > Read the paper and do the math if you are interested. > >        http://labs.google.com/papers/bigtable-osdi06.pdf > If the math is so simple, then surely you could have supplied a quick overview of the problem. Nobody likes "this is left as an exercise for the reader".