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

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 08:19:33PM -0600, Derek Scherger wrote:
> In terms of performance, I did a very quick test today on a ~30,000 file
> tree and git status took ~0.6 seconds while monotone (with inodeprints
> on) took ~3.5 seconds. Personally, ~3.5 seconds doesn't really offend me
> and I'm curious as to how much sha1 consistency checking git is doing
> generally when compared with monotone. I suspect it's doing somewhat
> less verification of things.

Eek, we should fix that.  (And 0.6s vs. 3.5s is the difference between
"instant" and "twiddle-twiddle-twiddle" in user experience terms.)
We have no excuse for going 6 times slower on status; we should be
(and at some point were) fast-pathing everything so we pay no penalty
for using more structured design.  (Probably this is related to that
other thread about doing 4x too many stat calls, etc...)

-- Nathaniel

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