Re: [GD-General] Re: asset & document management

[Mickael P. <mpo...@ed...>]

>> One of the things they seem to pride themselves in is
>> Perforce's ability to
>> reliably roll-back to any changelist or label very quickly,
>
> I'd think the time required to grab huge files from a server is
> comparable to the time required to get the much smaller diffs and
> apply them to the existing file. We've found that even complex stuff
> like LZ-like compression makes disk accesses faster, not slower,
> because it's so fast to decompress and still gives good space
> savings. So applying a diff is a doddle, surely?

Hum, of course the whole get operation will eventually be faster, but the PC
resources will totaly go down, and the machine will crawl.

If you don't have any particular treatment to perform on the data coming
from the server, you can afford to use functions like "CopyFileEx", and
basicaly the whole operation will not even be noticeable (except for disk
usage) by the user.

    Mickael Pointier