Re: Poor performance in windows. Switching back to CVS

On 2/14/07, Dmitri Colebatch <dim@colebatch.com> wrote:
> On 2/14/07, Jing Xue <jxue01@digizenstudio.com> wrote:
> > I for one wouldn't care to debate on whether not updating the
> > timestamp is a user error, but I would argue strongly against paying some
> > significant performance penalty just to accommodate it - there may be
> > legitimate reasons to do that, but I can't think of any _good_ one.
>
>
> What about comparing timestamps and filesize - if either differ then the
> file must be a candidate yeah?

Sure.

> I know this is still a long way from
> perfect, but it would cover most of the cases that people are concerned
> about.

Well, not entirely: there are still many cases which wouldn't be
covered by your criteria: moving code around for example doesn't cause
a size change.

bye,

Erik.

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Received on Wed Feb 14 23:04:24 2007