Eficiency [Re: comparison with mercurial?]

[Jérôme Marant]

Selon Martin Pool <martinpool at gmail.com>:


> > Are there some hopes to see bzr efficiency improved anytime soon, and how?
>
> Yes, there are.  There are three main efforts in this direction.
>
> The first is in switching to a better weave-like format, called a
> 'knit', which has similar append-only update properties to hg.
>
> The second is to store all revision files within a single container,
> which should drastically reduce the number of http roundtrips we have
> to make, for the bzr.dev branch from about 2700 to about 300.
>
> The third is to do overlapped http requests, so as to avoid the
> latency that comes from naive http against a passive http server.
>
> There are some other things but these are to my mind the main ones

Sounds very nice. Thanks!

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Jérôme Marant