Oct. 11, 2010
9:03 p.m.
It is not the mailing list that is the problem, it is the
squeaksource.com server that is. It takes several minutes to calculate a simple diff of a single version and that just kills responsiveness at the current rate of commits.
That seems to be a really high number. I just compared a version of the CollectionTests package in Squeak 4.2 with a Pharo version. The two are totally different, there are 2002 changes. Parsing both packages and creating the diffs takes less than a second with Cog. So it's probably less than 3 seconds with the standard VM. And this is an edge case.
this is true that squeaksource is central and we should get it faster not slower. :-/ Stef