Re: DAV is complicated and slow? (was Re: [svndiff1] Accept-Encoding in mod_dav_svn)

Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> On 11/21/05, John Peacock <jpeacock@rowman.com> wrote:
>
>>> Personal opinion. Many on the team do care quite a bit about DAV
>>> (myself included).
>> Though I didn't see you denying that it is complicated and slow... <duck> ;)
>
> I think most svn developers agree that DAV is complicated and slow --
> you'll get very little argument about that. But then a large number
> of them also think that the pain is worth the gain. Isn't it nice to
> have a choice of servers? :-)

Well, well, well.

It may be true that ra_dav currently is slow, but I think it's a bit of
a stretch to blame the base protocol for that. For instance, RFC3253
allows clients & servers to use custom REPORTs (und svn is using that),
so implementors *do* have the option to add extensions for performance
reasons.

I think talking about a concrete example would help...

Best regards, Julian

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Received on Mon Nov 21 19:00:46 2005