Re: Sysinst default root login shell

[Johnny Billquist <bqt%softjar.se@localhost>]

On 2012-04-12 23:57, Julio Merino wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Johnny Billquist<bqt%softjar.se@localhost>  
> wrote:
> > Funny you should say that, while a CVS checkout of all of the NetBSD source
> > tree have grown in time from about 20 minutes to about 5 hours on a VAX-8650
> > as we move from NetBSD 2 to NetBSD 5. Did we really improve performance, or
> > did we only just get faster computers, while the code itself got slower?
>
> Did you compare the size of the tree from NetBSD 2 and NetBSD 5?
> Number of bytes and files, that is.
>
> Did you compare how many stale directories have appeared in this time
> frame, that require the prune stage of "cvs update" to walk the whole
> tree?  (Which in my experience is the slowest part of an update,
> particularly with slow hard disks.)

I did mention this detail too, but you pruned that away from your quote...

Do you seriously think we've grown to 10 times the size in that time?

        Johnny

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