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Re: coalesced repies
- From: Mike Stump <mrs at apple dot com>
- To: Tom Lord <lord at emf dot net>
- Cc: gcc at gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 15:10:11 -0800
- Subject: Re: coalesced repies
On Monday, December 9, 2002, at 02:20 AM, Tom Lord wrote:
* Performance is so important that a faster system will convince
many people. Bitkeeper is far nicer in this reagard than CVS.
(David S. Miller)
In the most important case, arch is very fast at these operations.
For example, most of my checkouts happen at roughly the speed of `cp
-r'.
One of your competitors (IBM) does this in O(1) time. If you wonder
what the constant is, oh, a few seconds.