On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 10:14 -0500, Kaveh R. Ghazi wrote: > Hi Dan, > > (BTW, sorry for the reposted messages.) > > While I was waiting for some svn commands to finish (cleanup, update) > on my solaris2.7 box, which has a slow filesystem, I happened to run > truss -p <svn-pid> out of curiosity to see what was taking so long. > Turns out that svn does many file operations on long pathnames. I > recall that gnu find and other gnu utilities that do directory > traversal got jumbo speedups by changing to the directory and running > the file ops on "./filename" without long path prefixes. > > Could a future svn version get the same speedup?
Actually, i just removed the need for most stat calls during update in 1.4.
