On Apr 7, 2008, at 14:28 , Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
Hello David,
Monday, April 7, 2008, 9:22:25 PM, you wrote:
* I'm sure there are other new features, but this is all that comes to mind at the moment.
there was some issues with efficiency of darcs 1.x. am i correctly understood that these issues was not addressed by new release?
From discussion of the regressions on IRC, I'm given to understand that hashing makes many things faster but a few operations on very large repos are now slower. As darcs1 was uniformly almost unusably slow on such repos, the result is that they're somewhat faster in general but some operations are still very slow; work is still being done to optimize these. That said, I think a large part of the point behind darcs2 is to fix some of the odd corner cases in patch reconciliation that could lead to having to throw out your repo and start over in darcs1 (which I had to do several times with my ghc repo). -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH