Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Slow inventories on large source trees

[Colin Walters]

On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 09:40, Mike Hearn wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On the WineHQ source tree, with an in-tree build, doing tla inventory
> --ids >/dev/null takes approximately 20 seconds on my athlon 1200 with
> 256mb of ram.

Is this from a cold or hot cache?  How long does 'find . >/dev/null'
take under the same circumstances?

> This makes certain operations extremely slow, and this is problematic for
> us (the Wine developers thinking of adopting arch).

Probably for these large trees what someone needs to do is suck it up
and implement 'tla edit/unedit', like Bitkeeper apparently requires.

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