Emacs repository benchmark: bzr and git (rerun)

[James Westby]

On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 15:08 +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote:
> (emacs-devel list dropped)
> 

Hi,

Thanks for the info.

> 
> James Westby kirjoitti:
> 
> > I wanted to point out that bzr automatically repacks on commit
> > every so often, this means that the performance degredation should
> > be bounded, but yes, you will often be able to speed it up by
> > running "pack" manually.
> 
> I think I haven't done any commits to that repository so maybe it didn't 
> get packed and optimized automatically. In normal situation commits do 
> happen of course - except maybe for users who are just following the 
> development. But I don't know how bzr works.
> 

I'm not sure then.

You did a pull of the trunk of the branch? And then you did several
subsequent pulls?

> > I do think the effects of repacking bzr are very drastic, so it
> > is probably worth investigating where the slowdown was.
> >
> > Do you still have your .bzr/repository/ from the old tests?
> > Is there anything in .bzr/repository/obsolete_packs/ ? That would
> > let us know just how many packs you were running with.
> 
> Unfortunately I don't have the old test repository anymore (not even 
> backups between the tests). I only have the current 
> after-the-pack .bzr/repository/obsolete_packs/ . Hope this helps:

You appear do have more packs than me, but it's not a huge number.

Thanks,

James