On 17.05.2011 12:37, Stefan Fuhrmann wrote: > On 17.05.2011 10:11, Greg Stein wrote: >> On May 16, 2011 10:29 AM,<stef...@apache.org> wrote: >>> Author: stefan2 >>> Date: Mon May 16 14:28:45 2011 >>> New Revision: 1103749 >>> >>> URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1103749&view=rev >>> Log: >>> SVN status will try to read the .format file for every folder in >>> the working copy. That is very expensive, so do a stat call >>> to check whether the .format file exists - which it won't for >>> wc-ng w/cs. >> Is this true for both Windows and unix-ish? > AFAICT, this is true for both Windows and Unix. > Even if a failed file_open is equivalent to a stat, > we would still create a locale-dependent svn_error_t > object and that is expensive (at least not for free).
Wait -- creating an svn_error_t is more expensive than the extra stat? -- Brane
