Re: [darcs-devel] Improving pull performance

2005-08-07 Thread David Roundy
On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 01:39:19PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * David Roundy: > > > It looks like the fptools repo has been tagged and optimized already > > sometime before July 12, unless the dates on the server are wrong, the > > slowness you're seeing may be due to some other issue. > > We

Re: [darcs-devel] Improving pull performance

2005-08-07 Thread Florian Weimer
* David Roundy: > It looks like the fptools repo has been tagged and optimized already > sometime before July 12, unless the dates on the server are wrong, the > slowness you're seeing may be due to some other issue. Well, the file /fptools/_darcs/inventories/20050516215437-c2a52-0ccd467c6cd57ad

Re: [darcs-devel] Improving pull performance

2005-08-06 Thread David Roundy
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 04:38:04PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * David Roundy: > > I.e. rather than caching to avoid transport, I'd like to avoid > > downloading any data we don't need. I don't see any reason why we > > should need zsyncish optimizations for fetching the inventory, > > unless p

Re: [darcs-devel] Improving pull performance

2005-08-05 Thread Florian Weimer
* David Roundy: > On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 04:21:08PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: >> Has anybody thought about improving pull performance? >> >> I think it might be useful to add a cache for the remote >> _darcs/inventories/* and _darcs/inventory files, and use zsync to make >> downloads of _darc

Re: [darcs-devel] Improving pull performance

2005-07-30 Thread David Roundy
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 04:21:08PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > Has anybody thought about improving pull performance? > > I think it might be useful to add a cache for the remote > _darcs/inventories/* and _darcs/inventory files, and use zsync to make > downloads of _darcs/inventory incremental.

[darcs-devel] Improving pull performance

2005-07-29 Thread Florian Weimer
Has anybody thought about improving pull performance? I think it might be useful to add a cache for the remote _darcs/inventories/* and _darcs/inventory files, and use zsync to make downloads of _darcs/inventory incremental. zsync is available here: It doesn't need an