On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 9:53 PM, Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> wrote:

> Performance problems come about more due to the number of files in a
> single check-out.  Most projects have a few thousand source files, for
> which Fossil works great.  When the number of files in a single
> revision gets into the hundreds of thousands, then some operations can
> become sluggish.
>

Also, the diff/merge bits need an amount of memory proportional to, but
greater than, a file's size (potentially 2-3x), so storing very large files
(e.g. CD images or huge multimedia blobs) may cause out-of-memory
conditions on machines with limited memory/swap space.

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----- stephan beal
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those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do." -- Bigby Wolf
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