cvs deprecated

[RW]

On Thu, 27 Dec 2012 02:33:00 -0800
Garrett Cooper wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 2:30 AM, Chris Rees <utisoft at gmail.com> wrote:
> >

> > I recall a cluster administrator advising use of svn protocol
> > rather than http.  Something to do with overheads.
> 
>     Yes, you're right. http opens a connection per-file, which is
> horrendous with server load and is very slow as HTTP isn't optimized
> for this purpose

Presumably that's a limitation of the library or subversion because it's
not true of HTTP per se. Portsnap, for example, uses persistent
connections with pipelining.



> (and the current defacto HTTP library used with svn
> isn't the most performant thing in the world).