VCS comparison table

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Jakub Narebski wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> > 
> >> Christian MICHON wrote:
> >> 
> >>> - git is the fastest scm around
> >> 
> >> Mercurial also claims that.
> > 
> > Funny. When you type in "mercurial" and "benchmark" into Google, the 
> > _first_ hit is into "git Archives: Mercurial 0.4b vs git patchbomb 
> > benchmark". Performed by the good Mercurial people.
> > 
> > Leaving git as winner.
>  
> Check out http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitBenchmarks section "Quilt import 
> comparison of Git and Mercurial" for the latest (OLS2006) benchmark
> by Mercurial.

Thanks for the hint!

BTW the tests in Clone/status/pull make sense, especially the "4 times 
slower on pull/merge". In my tests, merge-recur (the default merge 
strategy, which was written in Python, and is now in C) was substantially 
faster.

> Probably not indexed by Google, or doesn't have high pagerank because it 
> is in PDF and fairly new (therefore has low "citations" number).

I hope these posts boost the pagerank.

Ciao,
Dscho