pure-python mercurial

[Weijun Wang]

Matt says the worst performance degradation happens to base85. You can
try adding a big binary file into your repo and see how slow it can be.

Max

TK Soh wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 1:06 AM, Weijun Wang <Weijun.Wang at sun.com> wrote:
>>> Thanks for the tip, but looks like the --pure option is meant for this
>>> too. I will give it a try.
>> I find out that changing the "PURE=" at the top of Makefile to
>> "PURE=--pure" also works.
> 
> I just installed using --pure, and it seemed to work fine. I also
> don't feel any significant slow down when using TortoiseHg on it
> (running the regular 'day-to-day' functions) so far. Granted,
> TortoiseHg is not a fastest kind of GUI itself ;-)
> 
> It's going take more time to get the real feel on this, but I can live
> with it so far.
> 
> Thanks for a good work.