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You're not really disputing what I said: Mercurial is much, much slower than Git. Facebook forked it and managed to make it faster but they never released their
by zak_mc_kracken 11y ago
You're not really disputing what I said: Mercurial is much, much slower than Git. Facebook forked it and managed to make it faster but they never released their fork so nobody can actually use it.
The bottom line is that a program written in C will always be orders of magnitude faster than a program written in Python. This is not news.
- digisign 11y agoAnd why parts of it are written in C.
- lake99 11y ago> You're not really disputing what I said: Mercurial is much, much slower than Git. Yes, I am. And I gave a reference for it. > Facebook forked it and managed to make it faster but they never released their fork so nobody can actually use it. I invite you to look up the license that Mercurial is released under. And then I advise you read [3]. And why do you keep making these unsubstantiated claims? > The bottom line is that a program written in C will always be orders of magnitude faster than a program written in Python. This is not news. If we're comparing exactly the same algorithms implemented in both Python and C, C would usually be faster. But we are not discussing the implementation of simple algorithms. We are talking about complex software, with different architectures. [3] https://code.facebook.com/posts/218678814984400/scaling-mercurial-at-facebook/ https://code.facebook.com/posts/218678814984400/scaling-merc...