[darcs-users] Darcs 2.4 - performance testing volunteers needed

[Jason Dagit]

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 3:09 PM, S. Günther <h8spawn at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Eric Kow <kowey at darcs.net> wrote:
>> ...
>> So could I get a benchmarking volunteer for each of these platforms?
>> It would be extremely helpful if you could respond by the end of this
>> week :-)
>>
>>  - MacOS X
>>  - Linux
>>  - Windows
>>
> I would volunteer to benchmark for MacOS X (Tiger) and Linux (Arch). If
> the need/wish arises I might also be able to do it for W2K but since that
> machine hasn't been used for quite some time now I'd first have to  check
> whether I can still get it to compile and run darcs.
> All those machines are fairly old, but I guess hardware is not an issue
> for a comparison.

FYI, last I checked on windows it was as simple as getting the latest
haskell platforrm and then cabal installing any darcs deps.

Jason