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  • Committer: John Arbash Meinel
  • Date: 2009-06-04 17:12:29 UTC
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 4410.
  • Revision ID: john@arbash-meinel.com-20090604171229-kbgfatt63y3u3uh1
Some small tweaks to decoding strings (avoid passing over the length 2x)

Down to 1.1s (from 1.4s) for decoding all of bzr.dev.
Also, favor decoding strings and then lists in _decode_object, since that is the
frequency we have those types inside Revisions.

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that only certain files should be compared.
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Performance can be further improved by caching comparisons to avoid repeating
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them.  Caching could potentially be performed by ``diff`` and perhaps by
 
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them.  Caching could potentially be performed by ``diff`` and perhaps by 
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``merge``.  Merge is aware of the relationship of a text merge's result to
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the THIS value, and the THIS value is generally the basis value.  So the
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comparison is latent, but present.  The only issue is extracting it.