Re: gcc development schedule [Re: sharing libcpp between GDB and GCC]

Zack Weinberg
2002-03-28T03:46:05Z

On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 10:17:03PM -0500, Kaveh R. Ghazi wrote:
> > (E.g. it takes about 10x longer to do "cvs update" on the 3.0
> > branch than the trunk.)
>
> Yeah, what's up with that? (I thought it was just me.)

The way RCS stores branches makes the cost of calculating diffs from a
branch tip proportional to the number of versions on the branch *and*
the distance between the branchpoint and top-of-trunk. I imagine
update has to do diffs for some reason.

That's the problem I know about; there may be others.

zw