On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 15:31 -0500, Paul Querna wrote: > "Profile everything, be faster at everything"
There are smart people who will disagree with me on this, but I'm not sure the best tool for improving Subversion performance is a profiler. Historically a lot of our performance issues have come from algorithmic inefficiencies, particularly from code in libsvn_repos. You can get maybe a 10-30% reduction in time on these operations by trying to optimize the innermost bit of code which gets repeated over and over again, but in some cases you can get an order of magnitude reduction in time by fixing the algorithms. It's been too long for me to remember any specific examples, unfortunately.
