Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [BUG] Building continuation patch-log is far too slow with large numbers of patches

[Bug Goo]

Created as bug 115

On Sat May 15 20:43:48 2004, Mike Hearn wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> There is a pathologically slow behaviour in arch_prepare_for_tag: it calls
> arch_archive_merge_points which in turn calls arch_archive_log for every
> possible patch in order to build the list of patches in the continuation
> patch log.
> 
> This perhaps does not matter for archives with 20-30 patches in. However,
> for the WineHQ CVS gateway which currently has about 630 patches with ~100
> added per week, this results in 630 apparently non-pipelined HTTP requests
> to the remote server simply in order to fill the patch log with what is
> IMHO worthless spam.
> 
> The solution would seem to be just not adding a list of every patch in the
> tag source to the patch log. There's no need for it, and it results in
> very slow tagging speed on some archives.
> 
> thanks -mike
> 
> 
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