Convenient metaedit
Pierre-Yves David
pierre-yves.david at ens-lyon.org
Mon May 6 13:23:37 UTC 2019
On 5/6/19 9:06 AM, Aurélien Campéas wrote:
>
>
> On 05/05/2019 21:00, Pierre-Yves David wrote:
> [...]
>> 200 → 20000 markers total (100.0 per changeset)
>>
>> To provide more numbers: 10 or 20 is a common stack size, and we
>> regularly see people building stack in the "hundreds of changesets"
>> range. And so far, I usually see an average of 10 markers per
>> changesets at the end of series with a lot of rework. (So adding even
>> 10 marker/changesetswith a single operation has a significant impact).
>>
>> My most important source of concerns here are basic users with
>> hundreds of draft that would routinely run commands that seems
>> harmless but actually creates hundreds of markers, creating a scaling
>> ticking bomb. That would be bad for both the user and the project.
>>
>
> But markers are very lightweight compared to changesets.
> Where do you see the ticking bomb exactly ?
They are lightweight, but still requires processing. I don't want to
have an infinite amount of them created because the algorithm and
scaling we will put in place will likely have trouble with arbitrarily
large amount of markers per changeset (tens is fine, hundreds seems
okay, thousands will be rough, etc)
--
Pierre-Yves David
More information about the Evolve-testers
mailing list