jberk@pretzel.sw.stratus.com (Joe Berkovitz) (02/10/90)
RCS version 4.2 (from GNU) is quite, quite slow when processing upwards of 20 revisions or so. It seems that this is due to the way deltas are processed: RCS shuffles the entire text of the file back and forth between temporary input and output files whenever a delta is encountered at a point BEFORE the last delta that was seen. It tries to always be poking through the file in a forward direction. Has anyone attempted to improve its performance in this area? Please contact me if you have! If nothing turns up, I'll undertake to improve it myself and post the results... Thanks, Joe Berkovitz (jberk@pretzel.sw.stratus.com --or-- uunet!lectroid!pretzel!jberk)