From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:07:48 -0500 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <2777d5bff012c5d1e3cc60d2591d65fe@brasstown.quanstro.net> In-Reply-To: <<13426df10911251346ya12f1f7m53c61995752cfd39@mail.gmail.com>> References: <<13426df10911251346ya12f1f7m53c61995752cfd39@mail.gmail.com>> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] after a recent pull ... Topicbox-Message-UUID: a0b522fe-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > Great. We're getting there. I do think in the long term the contrib > packages should be tar files. That would get our performance back. that performance is only for one case. what about the case where i'd like to know if a local file differs from sources? (i suggest contrib/diff as an addition to contrib.) that's really slow and annoying with a tar file. also, there's no reason replica can't work in parallel. - erik