On Tue, 2011-03-08, John Beranek wrote: > On 08/03/11 12:31, Julian Foad wrote: > > On Mon, 2011-03-07, John Beranek wrote: > >> On 05/03/2011 23:23, John Beranek wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> I'm not sure if much performance comparison has been performed, but I'm > >>> unhappy to report a significant _reduction_ in speed in a checkout. > >> > >> Hmm...I'm surprised (and disappointed). No one is interested in > >> Subversion 1.7 being lower performance than 1.6? > > > > I'm interested. Thank you for your report. I read it yesterday and > > couldn't think of anything terribly helpful to reply. Some of us are > > working on the speed issues. (Personally I'm looking at correctness > > issues at the moment.) It's good to see hard numbers. That's a speed > > regression that we certainly need to address. > > OK > > > But we don't yet have any standard set of benchmarks at all. Therefore > > it would be very useful to have a script that runs a speed test like > > yours, or a set of such tests. Would you be able and willing to write a > > self-contained script that creates a load of test data from nothing and > > then exercises the checkout (and perhaps other operations)? It needs to > > work with svn 1.6 and svn 1.7 of course, and it needs to run on Windows > > and Linux, so I'd suggest writing it in Python like most of our test > > suite. > > Python makes my head hurt, is Perl acceptable?
I think Perl would be acceptable. - Julian
