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From: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Subject: RE: Watchman support for git
Date: Fri, 02 May 2014 22:24:57 -0400
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On Fri, 2014-05-02 at 18:20 -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> dturner@ wrote:
> > Test repository 1: Linux
> > 
> > Linux is about 45k files in 3k directories.  The average length of a
> > filename is about 32 bytes.
> > 
> > Git status timing:
> > no watchman: 125ms
> > watchman: 90ms
> 
> That's very interesting. Do you get similar improvements when doing
> something similar in Merurial (watchman vs . no watchman).

I have not tried it.  My understanding is that this is why Facebook
wrote Watchman and added support for it to Mercurial, so I would assume
that the improvements are at least this good.