Comment 3 for bug 248604
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| Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote Re: [Bug 248604] Re: locking repository makes no difference to speed of repeated get_revision calls | #3 |
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On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 14:20 +0000, John A Meinel wrote:
> My personal feeling is that the cache should be kept for Knit repos. I
> believe Robert wanted it out to help force developers to move apis over
> to better ones (like using get_revisions() instead of looping over
> get_revision). Though as most of us are now solely on pack repos, nobody
> really realizes how much performance on Knit repos has regressed. So
> that part of the experiment is a bit of a failure.
I wanted it gone because it has global impact, not format-specific
impact, it makes a lot of code more complex, drives up memory use and
has generally been an ongoing nuisance for code cleanup.
-Rob
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