About the repositories

Todo

These benchmarks are not up to date with regards to the Darcs 2.5 release.

General notes

Unless otherwise indicated, each benchmark was run with a hot disk cache. Before timing a benchmark, we would run it once first, without timing, to warm up the cache. See below for some results with a forced cold cache.

The number of runs for each test satisfies the following constraints:

• at least 3 runs
• at least 10 seconds worth of runs
• at most 100 runs

We’re currently investigating long term storage of results so that we can use more than 100 runs, and also the use of the criterion package for a more principle approach.

Benchmarks

For the most relevant benchmarks, select a machine which most resembles yours

Older Benchmarks

Darcs vs. Git and Mercurial

• see Mornfall

General comments on the benchmarks

1. If you upgrade to Darcs 2.4, it’s a good idea to darcs optimize --pristine your repositories
2. Note that performance for such repositories may degrade for Darcs 2.3.1, however.
3. darcs get appears to be painfully slow on MacOS X (esp compared to Linux). Why?

Contribute benchmarks!

You just have to

cabal update
cabal install darcs-benchmark
cd /tmp/ && mkdir bench && cd bench
darcs-benchmark get
darcs-benchmark run darcs-2.3.1 darcs-2.3.99.2

For ongoing work on darcs-benchmark, try darcs get --lazy http://darcsden.com/kowey/darcs-benchmark or see Development/Benchmarks

Todo

Use Robert Frendt’s inter-DVCS benchmarking scripts with successive versions of darcs?

A simpler option