[svk-users] svk O(n) on logs?

[Chia-Liang Kao]

On 06/08/07, Chris Hecker <checker at d6.com> wrote:
>
> I mirrored mediawiki, which is 24k revisions.  If I do an log without a
> revision number, like "svk log /path" it's fast.  If I put a revision
> number in without a --limit, it gets longer the farther back it starts.
>   If I do -r 1:HEAD, it sits there for longer than I was willing to
> wait.  Doing the equivalent svn log commands on the svk repository
> directly is instant.  Is there some O(n) behavior necessary here or
> something?

Basically -rN PATH means the location of the node PATH at HEAD at rN, so
a "seek" is performed.  But i thought that'd be optimized away for the
case that things are the same and without -x.

Cheers,
CLK