[darcs-users] darcs patch: add exception to haskell_policy.sh for D... (and 61 more)

[David Roundy]

On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 6:29 PM, Trent W. Buck <trentbuck at gmail.com> wrote:
> David Roundy <droundy at darcs.net> writes:
>> On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 06:35:53PM +0000, Ganesh Sittampalam wrote:
>>> On Fri, 31 Oct 2008, David Roundy wrote:
>>>> Performance patches are *always* low priority, and should therefore
>>>> should only be made when they are both certain to be correct
>>>
>>> Please could you clarify what you mean by that? Much optimisation
>>> work will never be "certain to be correct". For example, the darcs
>>> annotate cache work will inevitably be too complicated to satisfy
>>> that criterion.  Even the recent series of patches I submitted, which
>>> were all quite "local" in some sense, still needed some testing to
>>> shake out bugs, and there's certainly no absolute guarantee that
>>> there are none left.
>>
>> My first and absolute priority is to make darcs as bug-free as
>> possible.  I understand that changes are necessary, and that any
>> change may introduce a bug, and therefore every change needs to be
>> carefully considered, what it's benefits are versus its risks.
>
> Do user complaints like "darcs is too slow and we are switching to
> git/hg" constitute bug reports? ;-)

Most users who complain about darcs' speed complain about its scaling,
or at least problems for which it scales poorly.  A constant factor
speed increase isn't going to keep them in the fold.

David