Re: [tlug] Darcs and the Lack of Haskell Programmers

[Dave Brown <dagbrown@example.com>]

On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 02:22:59PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> [2]  My theory is that git was originally a few low-level C programs
> for manipulating a fast object database, with the UI built up from
> scripts.  I think this heritage makes it likely that it is much better
> factored for the kind of abuse a server environment will dish out than
> the user-pandering programs like Darcs, Mercurial, and Bazaar.

Ironically, github saw large performance gains when they quit using the
C programs and switched to a pure-Ruby git library[1].  Having to fork
multiple executables per page view was a much bigger hit than having to
interpret Ruby code.

--Dave

[1] http://github.com/blog/107-supercharged-ruby-git