Benchmark: Git 1.6.3.3, Hg 1.3.1, Bzr 1.17

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Jari Aalto wrote:
> I ran *small* *scale* local benchmark on the three DVCS's with
> interesting results. The times should not be takes as absolute, but only
> relative to each other. The test system was Debian/Ext3.
> 
> All commands in all DVCS's were run with -q option to suppress output
> and in hg's case output was directed to /dev/null as it does not have -q
> in call "hg add". All 'add' commands used dot-add form: as in "bzr -q
> add ."
> 
> Bzr is in pretty good shape, but the the cloning takes awfully lot time
> even on local disk. Also the second commit (after patching 7552 files)
> takes some time.
> 
> Bzr is very effective on disk space (30% increase to original sources),
> but I don't know how would it really scale on bigger repositories
> (should import multiple kernels to find that out).
> 
> Jari
>

Were you using "bzr init --2a" or just the default?

John
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> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> - Initial sources: init, add, commit.
> - Then patch the sources back to one less: add, commit, log
> - Finally clone the result repository on to other directory on
>   local disk.
> 
> Kernel import   2.6.30  349 MiB
> Times in seconds (real time)
> 
> 
> Importing 2.6.30 sources
>                 Git 1.6.3.3     Hg 1.3.1        Bzr 1.17
> init            0,03            0,05            0,90
> add             26,00           1,80            5,50
> commit          0,60            51,00           55,00
> 
> 
> Patch: Kernel sources patched to previous version (2.6.29), 7552 files touched
> add             6,30            0,50            3,00
> commit          0,50            28,00           37,00
> log             0,01            0,13            0,17
> clone           49,00           40,00           71,00
> 
> 
> Kernel sources size: 349 MiB (repository sizes MiB)
>                Git              Hg              Bzr
> init and ci    460,10           466,60          451,60
> patch and ci   507,70           469,90          457,50
> clone size     506,80           467,00          453,90
> ...compared to sources
> Clone % bigger 45,21            33,81           30,06
> 
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