On Fri, 2014-05-02 at 22:40 -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote: > David Turner wrote: > > On Fri, 2014-05-02 at 18:20 -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote: > > > dturner@ wrote: > > > > Test repository 1: Linux > > > > > > > > Linux is about 45k files in 3k directories. The average length of a > > > > filename is about 32 bytes. > > > > > > > > Git status timing: > > > > no watchman: 125ms > > > > watchman: 90ms > > > > > > That's very interesting. Do you get similar improvements when doing > > > something similar in Merurial (watchman vs . no watchman). > > > > I have not tried it. My understanding is that this is why Facebook > > wrote Watchman and added support for it to Mercurial, so I would assume > > that the improvements are at least this good. > > Yeah, my bet is that they are actually much better (because Mercurial > can't be so optimized as Git). > > I'm interested in this number because if watchman in Git is improving it > by 30%, but in Mercurial it's improving it by 100% (made up number), > therefore it makes sens that you might want it more if you are using hg, > but not so much if you are using git. > > Also, if similar repositories with Mercurial+watchman are actually > faster than Git+watchman, that means that there's room for improvement > in your implementation. This is not a big issue at this point of the > process, just something nice to know. Converting git repos to hg seems to be incredibly slow. (I have not yet tried doing it with git-remote-hg). But I did find a hg repository for linux: https://bitbucket.org/orzel/linux-kernel-stable On this repo, I get: hg without watchman: 620ms hg with watchman: 264ms (compared to 125ms/90ms for git). The number of syscalls is, perhaps also interesting: no watchman / with watchman hg 77773 / 5421 git 59180 / 599 (About 1/3 of hg's syscalls with watchman seem to be loading Python stuff) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html