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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:59:08 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] A simple experiment
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On Tue Apr 27 13:58:39 EDT 2010, slawmaster@gmail.com wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 1:54 PM,  <jake@9srv.net> wrote:
> > Nice work, but couldn't you just bind /n/sources/plan9/sys/src
> > to the hg repo and push from there?
> >
>
> That would almost certainly be slower than grabbing the ISO via HTTP
> and getting the file tree locally.

it would be interesting to try.  if hg can push in parallel, it
could be competitive.  fetching the iso, decompressing the iso,
etc are not free.  and you can't push anything until after step
2.  talk about killer latency.

- erik