[Haskell-cafe] Re: announcing darcs 2.0.0pre2

[Simon Marlow]

David Roundy wrote:
> I am pleased to announce the availability of the second prerelease of darcs
> two, darcs 2.0.0pre2.

Thanks!

Continuing my performance tests, I tried unpulling and re-pulling a bunch 
of patches in a GHC tree.  I'm unpulling about 400 patches using 
--from-tag, and then pulling them again from a local repo.  Summary: darcs2 
is about 10x slower than darcs1 on unpull, and on pull it is 100x slower in 
user time but only 20x slower in elapsed time.

In both cases, the repository was on an NFS filesystem.  In the darcs2 
case, the repository I was pulling from was on the local disk, and I'm also 
using a cache (NFS-mounted).  The darcs2 repository has been optimized, but 
the darcs1 repository has not (at lesat, not recently).  I did all of these 
a couple of times to eliminate the effects of cache preloading etc., the 
times reported are from the second run.

------- darcs 1:

$ time darcs unpull --from-tag 2007-09-25 -a
Finished unpulling.
35.17s real   5.77s user   1.00s system   19% darcs unpull --from-tag 
2007-09-25 -a

$ time darcs pull ~/ghc-HEAD -a
Pulling from "/home/simonmar/ghc-HEAD"...
33.51s real   3.62s user   1.05s system   13% darcs pull ~/ghc-HEAD -a

------- darcs 2:

$ time darcs2 unpull --from-tag 2007-09-25 -a
Finished unpulling.
385.22s real   52.18s user   12.62s system   16% darcs2 unpull --from-tag 
2007-09-25 -a

$ time darcs2 pull /64playpen/simonmar/ghc-darcs2 -a
Finished pulling and applying.
668.75s real   290.74s user   15.03s system   45% darcs2 pull 
/64playpen/simonmar/ghc-darcs2 -a

Cheers,
	Simon