Re: Mercurial 0.4e vs git network pull

[Matt Mackall]

On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 04:22:19AM -0700, Adam J. Richter wrote:
> On Sun, 15 May 2005 10:54:05 +0200, Petr Baudis wrote:
> >Dear diary, on Thu, May 12, 2005 at 10:57:35PM CEST, I got a letter
> >where Matt Mackall <mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx> told me that...
> >> Does this need an HTTP request (and round trip) per object? It appears
> >> to. That's 2200 requests/round trips for my 800 patch benchmark.
> 
> >Yes it does. On the other side, it needs no server-side CGI. But I guess
> >it should be pretty easy to write some kind of server-side CGI streamer,
> >and it would then easily take just a single HTTP request (telling the
> >server the commit ID and receiving back all the objects).
> 
> 	I don't understand what was wrong with Jeff Garzik's previous
> suggestion of using http/1.1 pipelining to coalesce the round trips.

You can't do pipelining if you can't look ahead far enough to fill the pipe.

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