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Re: Subversion/Eclipse Performance on Windows

From: Toby Thain <toby_at_telegraphics.com.au>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:28:33 -0500

On 11-Dec-08, at 11:54 AM, Bob Archer wrote:

> Great idea if you can do it. "Unfortunately" a few of us develop for
> ASP.Net using Visual Studio... which last I checked doesn't run on
> Linux. Oh well, maybe the VS 2010 will have a native Linux version. ;)
>

The CLI compilers and toolchain runs fine under WINE...

--Toby

> Until then, it would be nice to see some performance improvements for
> the windows stack. When it the new .svn structure going to happen? Is
> this slated for 1.6 or later?
>
> Thanks... this has been a great thread.
>
> BOb
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David Weintraub [mailto:qazwart_at_gmail.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 10:56 AM
>> To: Mark Phippard
>> Cc: Toby Thain; Hilco Wijbenga; users_at_subversion.tigris.org
>> Subject: Re: Subversion/Eclipse Performance on Windows
>>
>> Thanks! This is the information I was looking for. I'm going to try
>> the CollabNet Desktop -- Eclipse Edition. I also know to make sure
>> that developers are using JavaHL (especially since we'd have to
>> license SVNKit).
>>
>> We are going to be redoing our infrastructure. If we get rid of
>> Microsoft Exchange and go with a more "Open" email and calendar
>> provider, we wouldn't need Windows desktops for developers. Instead,
>> we could have Linux machines which seem much faster with Eclipse.
>>
>> One of our developers took his desktop machine, installed RedHat, and
>> then used an open VM to install Windows as a virtual machine. He does
>> his development in Linux and uses the Windows side for Outlook and
>> MS-Word. Maybe that's the way we should be going.
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 6:11 PM, Mark Phippard <markphip_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 6:01 PM, David Weintraub <qazwart_at_gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>> I'm attempting to get this running on my machine. This is a dual
> core
>>>> Pentium with a gigabyte of memory. Checking out in Subversion via
>>>> Eclipse Ganymede using the most recent copy of Subclipse and
> running
>>>> SVNkit took almost 13 minutes.
>>>>
>>>> A similar task on Linux via the command line takes about five.
>>>> However, checking out from CVS was not much faster. It took about
> 10
>>>> minutes. This is a big project (probably too big).
>>>>
>>>> I've tried a merge, and Eclipse crashed (probably needs more memory
>>>> for its Java process. I'm attempting to try again.
>>>>
>>>> What I am trying to find out is who uses Windows
> XP/Eclipse/Subversion
>>>> combination and whether they also have performance issues. Do you
> use
>>>> Subversive or Subclipse? Do you use SVNKit or JavaHL (which doesn't
>>>> seem available on my installation)?
>>>
>>> I'd say most users use it on Windows. JavaHL is preferred. This
> Wiki
>>> page explains how to get it working:
>>>
>>> http://subclipse.tigris.org/wiki/JavaHL
>>>
>>> Subclipse has to do more than a command line checkout as Eclipse
> does
>>> some stuff and the svn status of all items is calculated and cached.
>>> So it is normal for it to be slower than the command line.
>>>
>>> For merge you should use CollabNet Desktop. This includes/works
> with
>> Subclipse.
>>>
>>> http://desktop-eclipse.open.collab.net/
>>>
>>> --
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Mark Phippard
>>> http://markphip.blogspot.com/
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> --
>> David Weintraub
>> qazwart_at_gmail.com
>>
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