bzr speed

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Martin Pool wrote:

> Briefly, the main things are:
> 
>  - Packing information into chunks that can be more easily fetched
>    across http/sftp (RevFile that robert mentioned)
> 
>  - Using a more efficient http library (PyCurl)
> 
>  - Using a "smart server", ie a program running on the server, as
>    mercurial does.   Not everyone wants to (or is able to) install
>    a program on their web server, so we want to make bzr as fast
>    as possible over plain http.  It is harder that way though.

Would using .listing files like GNU Arch uses help at all?

Erik
-- 
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
  Erik de Castro Lopo
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
Seen on comp.lang.python:
Q : If someone has the code in python for a buffer overflow,
    please post it.
A : Python does not support buffer overflows, sorry.