[darcs-users] pristine trees

[Kevin Smith]

David Roundy wrote:
> On the other hand oen hour for a darcs get is definitely unreasonable.  It
> looks like I've done something that has slowed down darcs.  I'm compiling a
> profiling version now so I can see where all the time is going.  I'm
> optimistic that I'll be able to get perhaps a factor of four improvement

You should be able to do better than that for some operations, at least.

I recently tried an initial checkin of a website directory. Nothing 
huge, and no binaries. Immediately after doing the recursive 'add', I 
did a 'whatsnew'. darcs took over 6 minutes of 100% CPU to get the 
answer, whereas yarcs took only 2 seconds. Later, when I did the record 
in darcs, it only took a couple seconds.

This is with a between-release version of darcs that includes patches up 
  through Tue Nov 18 05:05:22 PST 2003.

I'd like to tell you how long a get from abridgegame takes on my 
machine, but right now the network and/or server seems to be the 
bottleneck. I'm showing 0% CPU and 0% network for *long* stretches of 
time while the verbose get is just sitting there waiting. At this rate, 
I'll be thrilled if it only takes an hour :-(

Kevin