Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: a brief note on "delta compression"

[Miles Bader]

On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 06:15:36PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Indeed, the problems seems to be the time it takes to apply each changeset.
> There is no doubt in my mind that this can be sped up by an order of
> magnitude.  IIUC it is currently slow because it does a full inventory for
> each and every changeset

Actually from my point of view, the big slowdown is that it (apparently)
doesn't do any sort of pipelining, so fetching a bunch of changesets (plus
various signing-checking stuff) gets absolutely murdered by latency.

Oh, BTW, I'm not using a local mirror.

-Miles
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