[darcs-users] darcs.cgi is slow?

tnorth at bluewin.ch tnorth at bluewin.ch
Wed Apr 6 15:24:59 UTC 2005


Hello,

>i really love darcs, but as i mentioned above it's not simply slow, but

>it doesn't works because of it times out
>
>http://www.abridgegame.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2005-January/005347.html
>
>here you wrote: "Darcs' darcs repository seems to work perfectly and 
>quick, which difference ?"

Yes, I wanted to know why darcs was so slow on my personnal computer (866Mhz),
and seemed to be working on darcs.net.

David answered :
"Yeah, it's probably around what one would expect.  Darcs isn't optimized
for finding out information about a given patch.  Depending on your disk
speed vs processor speed, I imagine it could be either faster or slower if
you turned off compression.  It's worth experimenting.
Binary files are particularly painful, since darcs is pretty slow at
parsing them, which may be part of why your repository is slow.  This is
an
area where I think darcs could be sped up, but few enough people keep
binaries under darcs that it's probably not the most important performance
area to work on.
"

And further :

"And there's still a noticeable delay when you run
an annotate, and I can see (on top) the darcs processes when people do run
annotate."

>but currently even darcs' darcs repo doesn't work in some cases. that's

>my problem ;)

Yes... but here I won't be able to answer this...

Have a nice day,
T.North





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