Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: linus talk on git

[Paul Crowley]

Ulf Ochsenfahrt wrote:
> Interesting. I didn't mean to start a flamewar, I just meant to support 
> Graydon's previous post

I was linking to that essay mainly to provide a cite for the Hoare 
quote!  There's plenty to disagree with in it, such as the idea that 
learning assembly language has much to do with today's art of 
optimisation in the normal case, whereas my perception is that it's all 
about efficient algorithms, network latency, disk seeks and cache 
consistency.  The proper rule is "optimize as late as possible, but no 
later".  I think that Monotone has made the right tradeoffs here and Git 
has optimized early, but unfortunately not all users are patient enough 
for this sort of approach...
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