[darcs-users] darcs2 much slower than darcs1 on big repo

Trent W. Buck trentbuck at gmail.com
Fri Aug 15 01:45:11 UTC 2008


Alan Bram <alan.bram at oracle.com> writes:

> As an experiment, I created a new repo with "darcs init --darcs-2",
> and then simply imported the latest versions of all of the files and
> directories.  In other words, no history: this new repo has exactly
> one patch in it.

IIRC, Darcs does not like large patches.  A single, 45 MB patch will
make it very unhappy.  I suggest you either choose a more meaningful
benchmark, or HTFS to improve performance for enormous "initial import"
patches.



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