Help regarding project
Matt Mackall
mpm at selenic.com
Mon Dec 19 14:00:42 CST 2011
On Mon, 2011-12-19 at 06:13 +0530, Panks wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> This is Pankaj, I am a second year CS student at Indian Institute of
> Technology, Madras.
>
> I am interested in contributing to Mercurial.
> While going through mercurial site, I noticed only two of the total five
> ideas for last year gsoc were attempted.
> I would like to work upon the third idea, Performance
> Tuning<http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/SummerOfCode/Ideas2011v> of
> Mercurial:
>
> - Optimizing startup performance
> - Optimizing revlog parsing and indexing with a C index class extension
> - Improving performance of the status command
> - Eliminating unnecessary checks of unknown files in merge/update
> - Optimizing performance on Windows
>
>
> But since I am new to Mercurial, I would like someone to mentor/help me a
> little along with the project.
> Can someone please help me with that?
Your best bet is to join us on IRC for discussion. You should also do
some experiments with a profiler to try to identify a candidate for
optimization.
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