Re: [boost] SVN performance issues

From: Doug Gregor (dgregor_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-09-04 11:48:33

On Sep 4, 2007, at 9:14 AM, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> For comparison, I've run diff of KDevelop between KDE 3.4 and KDE 3.5.
> It took 13 mins and the resulting diff was 11M in size. The size of
> (archived) source is 9M.
>
> In comparison, the size of Boost.Build is 1.4M (including huge
> generated docs, svn size is smaller), and the diff is 96K.

I misread your "svn diff" line... I thought you were diff'ing all of  
RC_1_34_0 against the trunk, for which 13 minutes didn't seem so  
horrible. But you're only diffing the build system...

> Therefore,
> I'd suspect that if my commands takes more that 30 seconds, it's  
> already
> a misconfiguration somewhere. Are you sure it's not connection limit?
> I remember that diff needs a 2 or 3 connections to server at the  
> same time.

We've tweaked some things that helped performance on our end. Please  
try again to see how things are for you now.

        - Doug