Hi all,
[it seems like my last mail got lost]
Benedikt Schmidt wrote:
Reinier Lamers wrote:
Op zondag 07 maart 2010 03:03 schreef Adolfo Builes:
So, what do you guys think about it ? At this stage I don't have
really clear in what I
should specifically work to improve "darcs annotate", but I'm sure We
can have an
interesting discussion here, which could help me to define, in what I
should
specifically work if we want to see "darcs annotate" going faster.
AFAIK, what we need for a faster annotate is what we call a
"filecache". By that we mean a data structure that will let us look up
quickly which patches affect a given file. Benedikt Schmidt has been
working on this for a long time. I don't know if this has resulted in
some demo-able code yet.
Maybe you should ask him (beschmi at gmail) about the current state of
this work and if it would be possible to make a GSoC project out of it.
I have started porting the code to the newest unstable and ran into some
problems because Commands.Changes uses witnesses now. I have the feeling
that I need unsafe operations here if I only want to read the patches
that touch a certain file, but I have to investigate this further.
I can give some more details later this week and of course after Zurihac.
I now have a version where optimize creates a filecache from
scratch and changes <filename> uses the filecache to avoid
reading unnecessary patches. So the following things are
missing now:
- annotate should use the cache. I think it would be best to
have a function
filterPatchSetTouching :: RepoPatch p => [FilePath]
-> [PatchId] -> (PatchSet p) (C x y) -> (PatchSet p) (C x y)
that returns a valid Patchset that only contains patches affecting
the given files.
Then, one could still use the original code, it would just be
more efficient since it would work with a smaller repo.
- other repository operations should update the filecache
I'm not sure how far I/we'll get with these from the 19th to 21st
during Zurihac, but it seems like the basic functionality could
be finished before GSoC starts. I have sent a patch against current
unstable if anyone wants to check it out.
Best,
Benedikt
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