Brief article on benchmarks of Python repository with leading DVCSen

[David Cournapeau]

Alexander Belchenko wrote:
> Nicholas Allen пишет:
>   
>>> I don't know if the steps in parentheses are still needed, but they
>>> certainly were, if you wanted to avoid extremely slow initial clone
>>> times, at one point (and I haven't seen anything saying that's changed
>>> - nope, I went and checked, it's still true that this is the
>>> documented approach).
>>>   
>>>       
>> You could do a lightweight checkout that would not need all the history
>> or you could create a stacked branch. Both of these should significantly
>> reduce the bandwidth and download time. If the smart server was running
>> on the Python site I believe it basically does the whole tarball thing
>> for you without any change in commands you execute.
>>
>> From a benchmarking point of view it would also make sense to benchmark
>> smart server against smart server. If Bazaar is just using a dumb file
>> storage then it does not make sense to compare the performance of that
>> to git, say, which can only use a smart server AFAIK.
>>     
>
> According to manpages git can use dumb http server, but in practice I think it's very rare.
>   

It is not that rare: it is very useful for people behind proxies (like
me :) ). It is very slow, though, almost as slow as bzr.

cheers,

David