[darcs-users] Hashed GHC (and dependencies) repositories

[Matthias Kilian]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 10:25:41AM +0100, Eric Kow wrote:
> Any chance we could have a timing test for the old fashioned repo on the same
> server just to rule out confounding factors?  So we'd be comparing
> old-fashioned d.h.org  with old-fashioned d.v.de with hashed d.v.de...

The old-fashioned versions are at http://darcs.volkswurst.de/unhashed.
I'm running some benchmarks now. And I'm explicitely using --no-cache,
the super-fast results I noticed came from my cache ;-)

I'll send the results later this day.

> Also: If you copied http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc/_darcs/prefs/email
> into the ghc/_darcs/prefs on that server, people could transparently
> use that repository on a regular basis.

Done (for those repos that actually contain a _darcs/prefs/email).

> Alternatively, you could set up the motd to get them to pull from
> d.h.o instead.

I'll put a message there later this day, to remind people that
they're not using the real stuff but only a mirror.

Ciao,
	Kili