[Server-devel] config file mess

[Joshua N Pritikin]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 04:33:42PM +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Joshua N Pritikin <jpritikin at pobox.com> wrote:
> > I updated to testing. The GIT stuff is great.
> 
> Did your configuration survive? Any _broken_ symlinks? Things still work?

I grab my local mods out of GIT. I didn't notice broken symlinks. 
Everything works.

> > However, why is
> > xs-commit-change so slow?
> 
> It's not slow for me -- in relative terms. Definitely ~1s each call here.
> 
> If you are used to git's normal blazing speeds, a couple of things get
> in the way...
> 
>  - /etc is a large directory. git is optimised to keep track of all or
> most of the files it sees...
> 
>  - The ops will mostly be on cold-cache.
> 
>  - The python wrapper imposes ~1s startup costs... I did draft it in
> shell, but a shell metachar escapes are safer/saner in python, and I'm
> not out to win a speed race with this, so...
> 
> Let me know if you see it significantly slower than ~1s

Yah, it takes about 1s. I was surprised because typically GIT is so fast 
than I am suspicious about whether it is doing anything.