Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 07:28:41 -0500
To: Robert Collins <rbcollins@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla
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From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
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On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 11:37:38AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
> Finally, IIRC the performance data from when I was profiling this, we do
> 3* as many stats as required, and correcting that massively improves hot
> performance.

Yeah, currently tla (like darcs :-) seems extremely unoptimized.  It could
really benefit from some stupid in-memory caching of such things; maybe an
optimization freak (like a typical linux hacker...) sitting down and looking
at strace output.

> Arch can do single patch merges, I wrote pure-merge.sh ages ago (2 years
> I think) which does precisely that, automatically, but doesn't handle
> all the cases of conflicts that can occur. Andrew Suffield and I
> hammered out the algorithm for handling those, but no ones implemented
> it in the intervening time. 

Is there a text file or something describing this algorithm?

Thanks,

-Miles
-- 
I'd rather be consing.


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