Re: [Quilt-dev] quilt and debian (was something else)

[Tim Bird]

Jean Delvare wrote:
> Le lundi 23 novembre 2009 17:05, Greg KH a �crit�:
>> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 03:57:53PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
>>> I still believe we want this shell-based backup-script, no matter how
>>> high the performance penalty is. quilt was written in bash after all,
>>> which pretty much implies that we do no care about performance;
>> Um, no, I would disagree.  I deal with a tree that is almost always over
>> 300 patches, and push and pop all of them many, many, times a day.
>> Making 'quilt pop' 3 times slower would drive me crazy, I already feel
>> it's a bit too slow in places...

I agree with Greg.  I have several trees that have over 1000 patches.
I haven't looked at the details of what you are suggesting, but
any change that slows 'quilt pop' down by a factor of 3 is not
acceptable (to me).

> Feel free to rewrite quilt entirely in C then, I'm sure it would be
> much, much faster  :) 

I realize this was said in jest, but I'll respond anyway.

I don't know if that's true.  The bulk of the actual text processing
for a quilt system is handled by 'patch'.  That's already in C.
 -- Tim

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Tim Bird
Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum
Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Corporation of America
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