yet another dvcs shootout (this time python-devel)

Robert Collins robertc at robertcollins.net
Wed Nov 5 22:00:36 CST 2008


On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 21:52 -0600, Mark A. Flacy wrote:
> On 11/05/2008 05:04:52 PM, Paul Moore wrote:
> > 
> > That's a huge difference, and certainly emphasizes the importance of
> > not basing my opinions on older versions. I will see if I can try a
> > newer version of Bazaar (although I'd be much happier to do so if a
> > simple "unzip and go" Windows binary was available).
> 
> More timings on a Slackware 12.1 box:
> 
> flacy at flacy:/tmp/shared$ bzr init
> Standalone tree (format: pack-0.92)
> Location:
>    branch root: .

Just so you know, the init above is unnecessary, and in fact ignored -
you just made an empty branch, which happens to have as a subdir the
branch of python you made :).

> flacy at flacy:/tmp/shared$ time bzr branch  
> http://code.python.org/python/3.0
> Branched 37415  
> revision(s).                                                   
> real	9m43.480s
> user	4m15.724s
> sys	0m6.408s

So, 4m15 cpu time, the rest is network/disk. I suspect you're network
bound.


> My /tmp is an xfs file system, if that's important.

Shouldn't matter at all. (Only unreasonable file systems matter :P).

-Rob
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