[darcs-devel] [issue972] darcs whatsnew significantly slower on hashed format

[Nicolas Pouillard]

Excerpts from Darcs Bugs's message of Fri Jul 25 10:10:25 UTC 2008:
> 
> New submission from Eric Kow <eric.kow at gmail.com>:
> 
> I haven't seen a ticket on this yet.
> 
> Simon M mentions that the hashed format is slow enough for darcs
> whatsnew that he has switched back to the original format.
> 
> Presumably, if we fix whatever makes the hashed format significantly
> slower, this will also translate to gains for the darcs-2 format.  It
> would be useful if somebody would check and see if how the hashed
> format compares with darcs-2.

I remember that some "whatsnew" optimizations was harder to make with the
hashed format.

> If only there was more work going on with the maybench ([darcs]
> benchmarking) project...

My bad, partly... 

-- 
Nicolas Pouillard aka Ertai
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