Am 10.03.2014 12:42, schrieb Dennis Luehring:
> Am 10.03.2014 12:28, schrieb demerphq:
>> I had the impression, and I would not be surprised if they had the
>> impression that the git development community is relatively
>> unconcerned about performance issues on larger repositories.
> 
> so the question is if the git community is interested in beeing competive in 
> such
> large scale scenarios - something what mercurial seems to be now out of the 
> box
> 

The hgwatchman site claims (https://bitbucket.org/facebook/hgwatchman)

"On a real-world repository with over 200,000 files, hg status normally takes 
over 3 seconds. With hgwatchman it takes under 0.6 seconds."

There have been a few performance improvements in git status to support such 
large repositories. I just re-checked git status performance with the WebKit 
repo (~200k files):

Linux (with core.preloadIndex)
git status -uall: 0.620s
git status -uno : 0.255s

Windows (with core.preloadIndex and core.fscache)
git status -uall: 1.006s
git status -uno : 0.695s

Of course, for more reliable benchmark data, you'd have to compare the same 
repo on the same platform. But on first glance, it seems that mercurial with 
hgwatchman extension may be as fast as git is out of the box, not the other way 
around.

This comes at the cost of running a background daemon, which may slow down the 
entire system. E.g. if the daemon activates whenever the compiler creates a .o 
file, it will probably slow down build performance.

Note that hgwatchman doesn't support Windows, so git is probably much faster 
there.

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