[darcs-users] Re: darcs.cgi is slow?

[VMiklos]

Mark Stosberg wrote:
> I'm not sure how much sense it makes to compare 'darcs.cgi' to 'viewcvs.cgi'.
> It makes it sound like if they were coded the same way, they might be
> comparably fast.  

i don't know viewcvs.cgi's internal, probably they are not comparable, 
but a user just see, that darcs.cgi is slow ;)

> darcs.cgi often depends on the performance of 'darcs'.

yes

> Is there a specific case where you have timed darcs.cgi and darcs and
> found that the CGI interface was substantially slower than calling the
> related calls directly to darcs?  Only then can we can confirm that it
> is the CGI script and not darcs itself that is the source of slowness. 

no. i just thought about that in some cases it would be faster to 
directly deal with files than calling darcs to do the work. as David 
said, darcs is not optimized for the commands darcs.cgi regularly uses, 
so that if darcs.cgi would read the files directly, _without_ calling 
darcs, it might be faster as darcs.cgi's code would be optimized for 
_that_ operations

udv / greetings,
VMiklos

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