On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 18:58 +0100, Julian Reschke wrote:
> 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.
And we've done a lot of that. What's really to blame is trying to
express Subversion client calls in terms of existing DAV methods.
In a possible alternate past, we could have implemented libsvn_ra_dav
purely in terms of custom reports, making it look a lot like ra_svn (in
concept, not necessarily in syntax). We would probably get much better
performance that way, although we'd be throwing out any hope of using
generic caching HTTP proxies to improve svn performance. Which is okay,
since you can't do that today and it's unlikely anyone would be able to
derive much benefit from it in the future.
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Received on Mon Nov 21 19:14:43 2005