Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [PATCH] arch speedups on big trees

[Chris Mason]

On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 07:05, Chris Mason wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 01:09, Miles Bader wrote:
> > I've been using tla in NFS, btw, and one huge horrible lose there is that
> > computing a changeset seems to do, for every file, `diff a b > ,tmp',
> > where ",tmp" is _in the current tree_.  Creating a temporary file then
> > deleting it is ... slow.
> > 
> That part is actually easy.  arch_make_changeset creates the tmpfile,
> but could instead push that responsibility to arch_invoke_diff.  It
> would only be created/unlinked if the diff func reported changes.

Once the suse internal mirror gets going, you can grab
ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mason/patches/arch/arch-faster-7.diff.gz

An incremental is attached, it just avoids the temp file when diff isn't
run.

-chris

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