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The Darcs Revision Control System
The Darcs Revision Control System
Posted Nov 12, 2004 4:06 UTC (Fri) by ncm (subscriber, #165)In reply to: The Darcs Revision Control System by bfields
Parent article: The Darcs Revision Control System
Memory management for substantial programs written in garbage-collected languages is always tough.
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The Darcs Revision Control System
Posted Nov 12, 2004 18:37 UTC (Fri) by larryr (guest, #4030) [Link]
I think the performance problems with darcs may be related to deriving metadata information at runtime rather than storing it explicitly in files or filenames; in other words the fundamental approach is resource intensive rather than the particular implementation.
Larry