[Python-Dev] this is what happens if you freeze all the modules required for startup

[Guido van Rossum]

Can we please stop the argument about Hg vs. Git?


On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 2:40 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net>
> wrote:
> > Le 15/04/2014 09:45, Chris Angelico a écrit :
> >
> >>
> >> Specific use-case that I can see: Mercurial. In a git vs hg shoot-out,
> >> git will usually win on performance, and hg is using Py2;
> >
> >
> > Keep in mind those shoot-outs usually rely on large repositories and/or
> > non-trivial operations, so startup time is not necessarily a significant
> > contributor in Mercurial "being slower" (when it actually is slower than
> > git, which may not be all the time).
>
> I'm talking also about the feel of actual daily use, partly on big
> repos like git (git), CPython (hg), and Pike (git), and partly on some
> smaller ones. Whether it's startup cost or operational cost I don't
> know, but if I want it consistently fast, I generally go for git.
>
> ChrisA
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