[darcs-users] _real_ cygwin build?

[Trent W. Buck]

Salvatore Insalaco <kirby81 at gmail.com> writes:

> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Tuomo Valkonen <tuomov at iki.fi> wrote:
>> Works now. V-e-r-y slowly. (Takes ages 'reading pristine'.)
>
> That's another, separate, issue. On cygwin darcs should be no slower
> (nor faster) than on windows, where it is pretty fast.
>
> It is a big repository? It was sensibly faster on linux? Could you
> post the result of "darcs show repo"?

Don't forget that the legacy repository formats
(old-fashioned-inventory and hashed) cannot take advantage of some speed
improvements that have been introduced in the 2.x releases.