update speed (was Re: [Monotone-devel] Scalability question)

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 03:26:02PM -0700, Justin Patrin wrote:
> OpenEmbedded recently migrated to 0.27 (I'm using 0.28 myself).
> Pull/push is much much faster. Update is faster but still fairly slow.
> It takes it a while to select the branch to update against (I don't
> know why this should take so long...) then takes a while to choose an
> update target revision. The actual update doesn't take too long.

Could you note this -- and any other interesting speed observations,
if you have them :-) -- on the wiki, so it doesn't get lost?

http://venge.net/monotone/wiki/PerformanceWork for instance.

-- Nathaniel

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