Hi Rene, please see my comments inline,
Rene Engelhard wrote: > Jens-Heiner Rechtien wrote: >> Scalability: >> ============ >> - overall perceived good performance, some were even quite enthusiastic >> about it (SVN users are easy to please ...). >> - there were three mentions of sub-par performance which all >> have been investigated shortly: >> - unexpected slow clone times on a very old machine with slow >> disks and little memory: this machine was probably simply >> underpowered for use with Mercurial, which is somewhat memory >> intensive due to the implementation in python. Also there was >> a misunderstanding about when hg uses hard links as an >> optimization. > > If that was true, please tell me why it also was that slow > on my MacBook 2Ghz, 1GB RAM with (quite) fast disk, not an old > like my Mac mini G4 with 512M RAM? But I told you that at that time, too > >> - unexpected slow update of the working tree: caused by using the >> pure python replacements instead of the hg native shared libs. This >> should be avoided by any project of the size of OOo. > > You didn't read what I wrote. How please is > http://packages.debian.org/lenny/mercurial not using native libs? > (See the libc6 dependency and the .sos). You shouldn't think that only you have problems here and there :-) This bullet point was about an observation by Mikhail, and we think we have tracked it down to this problem. > >> Conclusion: >> =========== >> The purpose of the pilot was to find out if there are any important >> aspects which render Mercurial unusable as SCM for OOo. We found that >> there are none. This doesn't mean that Mercurial couldn't use some > > Not difficult if you ignore problems ;-( I certainly do not ignore problems. I may come to different conclusions at that time, but I do not ignore them. I even blogged about it at that time. Heiner -- Jens-Heiner Rechtien recht...@sun.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.org
