Re: Bitkeeper vs. CVS update times (was Darkstar Development Project)

2000-09-11 Thread Larry McVoy
> The timing is typical over repeated tries. The GCC tree contains 98.1 > megabytes of data in 9105 files, 532 directory. A little more than > Linux (but I don't have an unpacked fresh tree to count for sure). > > I'm not going to try touching all the files. > > Conclusion: CVS is pretty fast

Bitkeeper vs. CVS update times (was Darkstar Development Project)

2000-09-11 Thread Jamie Lokier
David A. Gatwood wrote: > I'm sorry, but I can't believe those numbers. It takes longer than 1.6 > seconds to stat all the kernel directories unless the BK machine has a > huge disk cache. It sounds like the BK server was a much more powerful > machine. Use treescan for fast stat preload :-) A