Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

sm-grimoire - Re: [SM-Grimoire] Just to let you know we are not completely silly....

sm-grimoire AT lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: Discussion of Spells and Grimoire items

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: Tony Smith <tony AT smee.org>
  • To: Sergey A Lipnevich <sergeyli AT pisem.net>, Eric Schabell <eschabell AT sourcemage.org>
  • Cc: sm-grimoire AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Grimoire] Just to let you know we are not completely silly....
  • Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 17:45:55 +0000

I'll try not to turn this into a flame war so with great restraint....

On Monday 06 January 2003 3:26 pm, Sergey A Lipnevich wrote:
> I've checked every feature praised in this article and it's present in
> Subversion:
> 1) No sales force: you bet
> 2) Change-based architecture: yes, similar repository-wide changeset
> sequance numbers are used
> 3) Atomic transactions: yes, via Berkeley DB transaction support,
> including long (with reboot) transactions, and support for Berekley DB 4.1
> 4) inter-file branching with lazy copy mechanism: yes, one of the
> centerpieces of the Subversion architecture

Hmm... where did they get that idea from? Immitation is the sincerest form of
flattery I suppose.

> 5) Scalability: look at the list of publis Subversion repositories
> http://subversion.tigris.org/svn-repositories.html, the largest there is
> 5 GB (Subversion is slower than CVS as many observed -- no comparison
> with Perforce had been made -- but they're working on this)

FWIW Perforce is *much* faster than CVS for the majority of actions and is
just plain faster for the rest. There are some performance figures here
http://www.perforce.com/perforce/reviews.html for those that are interested.
And these benchmarks are entirely fair and reproducible - not
Mindcraft-style! The links to the docs on the hardware and test procedures
are on the page above.

Tony.





Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page