Stephen Rasku writes: > > I believe what he is refering to is that the more SCCS will get slower the > more revisions you have in a file. Getting a file from RCS/CVS should be a > constant time event for the latest version because RCS/CVS stores the latest > revision verbatim. However, as I understand it, SCCS saves each version as > "#ifdefs". I don't think it stores a complete copy of the latest revision. > As such, it will have to calculate what is in the latest version and how long > this takes will depend on how many revisions you have.
SCCS can retrieve any revision in one pass through the file. As you say, there are the equivalent of "#ifdefs" that specify which revisions include the following lines , so there's very little processing time, it's mostly just I/O time. CVS as currently implemented has to read the entire RCS file before doing anything, so I'd be very surprised if it's significantly faster. -Larry Jones Life's a lot more fun when you're not responsible for your actions. -- Calvin _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
