[MERGE] fix blackbox failures when run from windows executable

Alexander Belchenko bialix at ukr.net
Wed Aug 20 18:54:06 BST 2008


John Arbash Meinel пишет:
> Adrian Wilkins wrote:
>> Alexander Belchenko wrote:
>>> I have strong opinion that bzr.exe should be distributed without test
>> suite.
> 
>> I concur on this point ; process creation overhead on Windows is large
>> enough, which is one of the reasons why git is (IMHO) less practical on
>> Windows than bzr. I've had instances where I've written a small *nix
>> style tool to process large numbers of files, and running it through a
>> shell pipeline on Windows over half the runtime is consumed by process
>> startup and teardown.
> 
> 
> I would be fine with it, though I would like to see a real test of how much
> overhead it actually causes.

It's very easy to measure. Just manually delete files from library.zip and
run `bzr.exe --no-plugins --no-aliases rocks`




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