[darcs-users] Re: darcs for /etc very slow

Erik Bågfors zindar at gmail.com
Thu Dec 16 14:03:18 UTC 2004


On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 14:03:39 +0100, Thomas Zander <zander at kde.org> wrote:
> On Thursday 16 December 2004 13:52, Erik Bågfors wrote:
> > On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 11:19:16 +0100, Thomas Zander <zander at kde.org> wrote:
> > > On Thursday 16 December 2004 02:08, Mark Stosberg wrote:
> > > > It's nice to present them in some 'ideal' order, but presenting them
> > > > in /any/ order in a reasonable amount of time seems preferable to
> > > > presenting them in an ideal order in an extremely long amount of
> > > > time.
> > >
> > > This solution, naturally, begs the question how the user, or darcs is
> > > going to decide when to use one, and when to use another.
> > > We don't want to end up with wrong results simply because the user was
> > > in a hurry.
> ...
> > get:ing the darcs linux repo ate over 600MB of my laptops memory.
> > That's kind of a showstopper for some projects.  Waiting hours to do a
> > record is also a showstopper.  It's not a question of being in a
> > hurry.
> 
> I think you misunderstood me;  (I was probably trolling to much, sorry).
> The point is that if a quicker fallback is possible there has to be a
> programmed (always correct) way to determine when that fallback is to be
> used.  Thats all I was saying.
> 
> Don't worry; everyone here agrees with you that waiting for hours is not
> acceptable.  The willingness to fix it is there,  all we are looking for is
> a good, long term solution.

I'm not worried, that's why I'm still using darcs. 

What are the plans to adress this kind of problems? Do you have any
specific plan or is it just "smarter code" that's the thing?

Regards,
Erik




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