Re: Selective checkout of www

[Ineiev]

On 09/03/2013 06:26 PM, Thérèse Godefroy wrote:
> Le mardi 03 septembre 2013 à 17:59 +0000, Ineiev a écrit :
> > On 09/03/2013 10:08 AM, Thérèse Godefroy wrote:
> > > Bad luck, maybe?  ;)
> > I think so. the dispersion of checkout times is very high, so
> > the sample may not be representative. select-www-co does download
> > 5% more data and spends more time in computations, but the difference
> > must not be so big.
>
> The difference is visible also when running the 2 scripts in parallel,
> in 2 terminals.

Any communication is a random process. I can't deny that the difference
may be huge, but I only observe is that the main component, checkout
time, varies greatly from run to run, and many measurements are needed
to say anything for sure.

> But who cares for 10 seconds, after all, when we are
> saving from 15min to over an hour?

I'd also think about that as about saving hundreds MB of disk space.