Re: Subversion, decentralized version control, and the future.

On 29/06/2007 6.15, Troy Curtis Jr wrote:

>> > So we're going to need a working copy rewrite. We knew that; in fact
>>
>> And this time (if you allow me my humble two cent) get it right and
>> cut the
>> development time down to 1/10th by using a more evolved language than C.
>> Python comes to mind, but anything would do.
>
> Yeah but he stated we needed to be faster! C->python certainly
> wouldn't facilitate that! :)

Speed has nothing to do with the language here, it's all about design and
algorithms. Mercurial is many times faster than Subversion in common
operations while being written in Python.

-- 
Giovanni Bajo
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