Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
> On Sat, 2004-04-24 at 17:06, Peter N. Lundblad wrote:
> > Please note that I am relatively new to the svn codebase, so my
> > terminology above may look a bit strange. However, I'd like to know if I
> > am on the right track and if this is a good way to improve the speed of
> > the blame command. I think this task shouldn't be too hard for a beginner
> > like me:-)
>
> This plan looks sane to me. You may find that performance doesn't
> improve by as much as you'd hoped for, because blame will still be
> incurring a round-trip delay for each revision. Breaking that barrier
> would require a specialized RA function to retrieve all the revs of a
> file within a certain revision range.
I'd like to stress Greg's point, perhaps more than even he would:
The real speed problem here, for WAN users anyway, is the round-trips,
because they make 'svn blame' latency-sensitive. I'm not sure it's
worth addressing svn blame's speed problems without addressing that.
A new RA function can go into 1.1, as long as no interfaces are taken
away.
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Received on Mon Apr 26 18:12:21 2004