On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 08:17, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Alex Hunsaker <badalex@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 18:48, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> OK, try this. It takes about 14 seconds on my machine on my copy of
>>> Magnus's test repository. Output looks like this:
>>
>> 14 seconds! That sound much too slow :-)
>
> /me is very sorry master. Please beat your unworthy servant only
> lightly... or alternatively, buy me a faster machine.
Well, I might be able to afford a beer. I do think 14 seconds is quite amazing.
> It should get a bit faster if we reduce the number of branches it
> examines, which I assume is something we can do once we desupport 7.4
> and 8.0. We could also add a --since argument which would doubtless
> speed things up a lot, by truncating the history to, say, the last N
> years.
Presumably that could even be from the last point release to HEAD.
> Despite the fact that I wrote this basically in response to Tom's
> complaint, I do think that it's generally useful, and will likely use
> it myself from time to time.
Yeah, I might find it useful as well which is why I chimed in.