Re: vc-state-heuristic is gone

[Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>]

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  > Thus, a brutal and effective simplification: *all caching goes away*.

  > Affected back ends: SCCS, RCS, CVS, SVN, Bazaar.  I've already tested
  > with RCS and any change in preformance is now so small that a human is
  > not capable of registering it.

What is the caching you plan to eliminate?

Is it caching of data in Emacs to represent the state of local disk
files?

Is it caching of data in local disk files to represent the state of
a remote repository?

The former, I have no opinion about.  The latter would be a disaster
for me.  The operations that now work locally in a few seconds will
take HOURS (until I have a network connection).

Have you tested the speed of the operations when your connection to
Savannah is going through Tor?

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