pure-python mercurial

[TK Soh]

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 5:28 AM, Brendan Cully <brendan at kublai.com> wrote:
> 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).

I am actually using this changeset. BTW, does it only affect commit as
Weijun said?