[darcs-users] "Static Gitit" site.

[Gwern Branwen]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Trent W. Buck <trentbuck at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:43:42AM -0400, Gwern Branwen wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Trent W. Buck <trentbuck at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Daniel Carrera <daniel.carrera at theingots.org> writes:
>> >>> Gitit uses filestore, and filestore aims at multiple backends.
>> >>
>> >> Doesn't seem like a valuable feature if the price is poor
>> >> performance. We don't need multiple backends.
>> >
>> > Gwern, would performance improve if darcs-wiki used a different backend?
>>
>> Well, the Git backend is plenty fast so there definitely would be an
>> improvement. But until someone converts the repo and tests it on
>> test.darcs.net, I couldn't say how much of a one. One order? 2? How
>> would it compare with a --max-count Darcsit? Dunno.
>
> Sorry, I guess I misunderstood.  IIRC you were saying that if gitit
> was using an sqlite backend, it wouldn't be able to look at mtimes.  I
> thought you meant a filecache backend -- so the VCS would still be
> Darcs.  Did you mean that sqlite was a (potential) alternative backend
> to darcs/git?

Yes. John has coded up a mostly complete SQLite3 backend for
filestore, although it's not complete and its main purpose right now
is to prevent us from accidentally slipping in a DVCSism into
filestore.

-- 
gwern