Redirecting to darcs-users in the hopes of widening the net (and in anticipation of this opening up into a discussion)
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:53:46 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > > Some thoughts may be: > > - Some sort of HFS+ particularities, eg. wrt hardlinks? > > Maybe. [snip Spot/Time Machine as unlikely culprits] > > What could be causing this? And how do we confirm the hypothesis? > > Even darcs get on the local filesystem is slow, mind you... > > All system calls on Mac are slow, that's all there is to it AFAICS. Why is this the case? Is there a reasonable way to confirm that the problem is really due to system calls on Mac being slow? Would benchmarking Darcs on PureDarwin give us any insights? http://sites.google.com/a/puredarwin.org/puredarwin/ (If there are any volunteers...) What could we possibly do to make Darcs faster on Macs aside from just making it faster on all platforms? Thanks! -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> For a faster response, please try +44 (0)1273 64 2905.
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