RE: Eliminating the text-base penalty

> > more convenient for programmers in small to medium sized projects, and
> > the transition is just one of many you have to go through in
> order to be
> > able to work on a larger scale.

> I think you have your models reversed. A reserved checkout model has
> horrible scaling problems - people end up tripping over themselves
> because they are doing parallel development. User K in Chicago

I said nothing about "reserved". I said "telling the system what you're
editing". When the system has to stat 20,000 files to figure out what
changed, that can take 10 minutes on typical Windows file systems. If
the system already has a list of the files that you have changed, because
you told the system, then it's instantaneous.

> Reserved checkouts may make more sense in smaller projects (where

I am not advocating reserved check-outs. Indeed, I'm advocating something
which could (should!) be implemented solely using client-side state, to
greatly accelerate operations that need to know which files have been
changed.

Cheers,

                                / h+

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Received on Sun Sep 29 02:35:06 2002