Issue 2497: optimize speed of conflict computing in whatsnew -s

Title	optimize speed of conflict computing in whatsnew -s
Priority		Status	unknown
Milestone		Resolved in
Superseder		Nosy List	gh
Assigned To		Topics	Performance

Created on 2016-04-19.15:15:18 by gh, last changed 2016-04-19.15:15:18 by gh.

msg19179 (view)

Author: gh

Date: 2016-04-19.15:15:15

Following http://bugs.darcs.net/patch1479 , conflict detection makes
whatsnew slower since it needs to dig in the patch history.

Can we improve its performance? Would it make sense to store that
information in some cache?

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2016-04-19 15:15:19	gh	create

Issue 2497 optimize speed of conflict computing in whatsnew -s