Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262110AbVELSYj (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 May 2005 14:24:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262109AbVELSYe (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 May 2005 14:24:34 -0400 Received: from w241.dkm.cz ([62.24.88.241]:65239 "HELO machine.sinus.cz") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262102AbVELSXn (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 May 2005 14:23:43 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 20:23:41 +0200 From: Petr Baudis To: Matt Mackall Cc: linux-kernel , git@vger.kernel.org, mercurial@selenic.com, Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: Mercurial 0.4e vs git network pull Message-ID: <20050512182340.GA324@pasky.ji.cz> References: <20050512094406.GZ5914@waste.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050512094406.GZ5914@waste.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-message-flag: Outlook : A program to spread viri, but it can do mail too. Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1161 Lines: 31 Dear diary, on Thu, May 12, 2005 at 11:44:06AM CEST, I got a letter where Matt Mackall told me that... > Mercurial is more than 10 times as bandwidth efficient and > considerably more I/O efficient. On the server side, rsync uses about > twice as much CPU time as the Mercurial server and has about 10 times > the I/O and pagecache footprint as well. > > Mercurial is also much smarter than rsync at determining what > outstanding changesets exist. Here's an empty pull as a demonstration: > > $ time hg merge hg://selenic.com/linux-hg/ > retrieving changegroup > > real 0m0.363s > user 0m0.083s > sys 0m0.007s > > That's a single http request and a one line response. So, what about comparing it with something comparable, say git pull over HTTP? :-) -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog. -- Steve Taylor - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/