Re: Mercurial 0.4e vs git network pull

[Petr Baudis]

Dear diary, on Thu, May 12, 2005 at 11:44:06AM CEST, I got a letter
where Matt Mackall <mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx> told me that...
> Mercurial is more than 10 times as bandwidth efficient and
> considerably more I/O efficient. On the server side, rsync uses about
> twice as much CPU time as the Mercurial server and has about 10 times
> the I/O and pagecache footprint as well.
> 
> Mercurial is also much smarter than rsync at determining what
> outstanding changesets exist. Here's an empty pull as a demonstration:
> 
>  $ time hg merge hg://selenic.com/linux-hg/
>  retrieving changegroup
> 
>  real    0m0.363s
>  user    0m0.083s
>  sys     0m0.007s
> 
> That's a single http request and a one line response.

So, what about comparing it with something comparable, say git pull over
HTTP? :-)

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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