Re: source mgt. requirements solicitation

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds at transmeta dot com>]

On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Tom Lord wrote:
>
> What aspect of arch has you confused?  or, alternatively, what flaw
> do you see in arch's approach to distribution?

To be honest, I tried arch back when I was testing different SCM's for the
kernel, and even just the setup confused me enough that I never got past
that phase. I suspect I just tried it too early in the development cycle,
and that turned me off it.

Also, the oft-repeated performance issues have kept me wary about arch.
Bitkeeper is quite fast, but even so Larry and friends actually ended
having to make some major performance improvements to the bk-3 release
simply because they were taken by surprise at just _how_ much data the
kernel SCM ends up needing to process.

I realize that there are a lot of advantages to keeping to high-level
scripting languages for the SCM, but it's also quite important to try to
avoid making the SCM itself be a distraction from a performance
standpoint. However, since I never got very far with arch, I really only
parrot what I've heard from others about its performance, so this may be
unfair.

			Linus