Re: Checking out src with Mercurial

[matthew sporleder <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost>]

> On Jun 19, 2020, at 3:51 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt%update.uu.se@localhost> wrote:
> 
> On 2020-06-19 20:19, matthew sporleder wrote:
>> git clone with --depth 1, over http (instead of ssh), and with a few
>> simple settings changes will make it work inside of 128M.
> 
> Well, the whole point of virtual memory and demand paging is that you don't have to have enough physical memory. I would hope that still applies... My comment about have 128M (which, by the way, can be considered a lot, when we talk about VAXen), was just about the potential speed I possibly could expect. If git really requires that people have at least 128M of physical memory to work, then I'd first ask when did NetBSD break so badly that the amount of physical memory becomes a limitation in this way, and second, why would a tool like this require that much memory in the first place?
> 
>  Johnny
> 
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I don’t know what to tell you.  It works. 

I personally think running such an old and inefficient computer is, literally, immoral when a modern $30 machine can emulate it perfectly using as much electricity as a small CFL light bulb and leave over 700mb of memory to spare.