Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: a brief note on "delta compression"

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Miles Bader <address@hidden>

    > On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 06:15:36PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
    > > Indeed, the problems seems to be the time it takes to apply each 
changeset.
    > > There is no doubt in my mind that this can be sped up by an order of
    > > magnitude.  IIUC it is currently slow because it does a full inventory 
for
    > > each and every changeset

    > Actually from my point of view, the big slowdown is that it (apparently)
    > doesn't do any sort of pipelining, so fetching a bunch of changesets (plus
    > various signing-checking stuff) gets absolutely murdered by latency.

    > Oh, BTW, I'm not using a local mirror.

Yeah, it's that last bit that's killing you.

-t