bazaar performance with single large project and a comparison with?git / mercurial

Rahul Nabar rpnabar at gmail.com
Thu Apr 24 09:06:09 BST 2008


On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 1:13 AM, Teemu Likonen <tlikonen at iki.fi> wrote:
>
>  A couple of weeks ago I did some basic benchmarks with Git and Bazaar
>  repositories of GNU Emacs. The size of the history is about 90,000
>  commits. My first benchmark[1] was with somewhat unoptimised
>  repositories because I hadn't repacked either of the repos in a week or
>  so. This had negative impact on Bazaar's performance. When I realised my
>  mistake I ran the same benchmark again[2] with optimised repos.
>
>  1. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.bazaar-ng.general/38404/focus=38917
>  2. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.bazaar-ng.general/38404/focus=38960

Thanks Teemu! Those results were very astonishing for me! The
performance of git seems to be not marginally but almost an order of
magnitude faster than Bazaar! git seems to be doing operation in
seconds where Bazaar takes minutes! Is that really true or am I
misreading those tests?

-Rahul



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