[Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch_inventory_traversal

[Pau Aliagas]

On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Tom Lord wrote:

>     > From: address@hidden (RedHog (=?iso-8859-1?q?Egil_M=F6ller?=))
> 
>     > I have recently been queried about how good Arch (tla) was on
>     > handling large inventories. As a test, I imported the Linux
>     > kernel tree (about 100Mb), and it turned out a one-file-change
>     > took about 20min to commit. This is not acceptable, so I started
>     > profiling.
> 
> We've certainly seen some reports about rather better performance 
> on that very tree but, ok.....  let's look into this.

Having spare revision libaries + not using pristines + hardlinking the 
tree would make it much faster. In these huge trees it's almost a must: 
you save space, time and headaches ;)

Pau