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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Hideously slow VC status queries fixed
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 02:34:13 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv4pe2c5x3.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071227001113.3EDFE830B6E@snark.thyrsus.com> (Eric S. Raymond's message of "Wed, 26 Dec 2007 19:11:13 -0500 (EST)")

> People who wrote backends for later VCSes followed suit, so focused
> on getting their backends minimally working that they failed to notice
> that the upper-level logic was perversely misdesigned.

If you read some of the comments in the code or in the relevant
mailing-lists, you'll soon discover that nobody failed to notice
the misdesign.
Thanks for working on fixing it.


        Stefan

      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-12-29  7:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-27  0:11 Hideously slow VC status queries fixed Eric S. Raymond
2007-12-27  1:27 ` Tom Tromey
2007-12-27  2:19   ` Eric S. Raymond
2007-12-27 18:24     ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-29 19:18     ` Tom Tromey
2007-12-29 21:49       ` Eric S. Raymond
2007-12-30 21:54         ` Tom Tromey
2007-12-31  3:41           ` Eric S. Raymond
2007-12-31 19:09             ` Tom Tromey
2007-12-31 20:33               ` Eric S. Raymond
2007-12-31 20:58                 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-12-31 21:42                   ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-01-01 23:21                 ` Tom Tromey
2008-01-02  0:19                   ` Eric S. Raymond
2007-12-27 18:24   ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-28  9:02     ` Eric S. Raymond
2007-12-28 18:46       ` Tom Tromey
2007-12-28 19:36         ` Tom Tromey
2007-12-27  2:41 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-12-27  6:13   ` Alexandru Harsanyi
2007-12-27 13:21   ` Eric S. Raymond
2007-12-29  7:40     ` Stefan Monnier
2007-12-29  7:34 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]

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