pure-python mercurial

[Brendan Cully]

On Thursday, 05 March 2009 at 05:24, TK Soh wrote:
> 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.

Just FYI, a patch went in just after 1.2 that speeds up pure python
base85 3x (it's still 40x slower than C).