pure-python mercurial

[TK Soh]

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 1:44 AM, TK Soh <teekaysoh at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 1:28 AM, Weijun Wang <Weijun.Wang at sun.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Will try that. Thanks for the note.

BTW, I wonder if diff'ing large binary file will be enough to tell how
slow it will get.

>> 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.
>>
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