[darcs-devel] announcing darcs 2.0.0pre1, the first prerelease for darcs 2

[David Roundy]

On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 01:12:59AM +0100, Alexander Staubo wrote:
> On 12/15/07, David Roundy <droundy at darcs.net> wrote:
> > My arguments here started looking pretty thin, so I've now added automatic
> > optimization for hashed repositories.  I think this'll be pretty cheap, and
> > if it turns out to be a performance regression, then we can always revert
> > it.  The only command upon which we really shouldn't be bothering to do
> > this is record, and I'm not sure it's worth putting that special case in.
> 
> Glad to hear it. But does this mean you still have to tag in order to
> get the benefits from the optimization step?

That's true, but you shouldn't have to tag particularly often.  As
mentioned (a few moments) before, you won't need this particular
optimization to cut your network IO costs, that's handled by the hashed
format.
-- 
David Roundy
Department of Physics
Oregon State University