Summary: SCCS vs. RCS
Donn Terry
donn at hpfcdc.fc.hp.com
Wed Nov 21 11:01:53 AEST 1990
Item SCCS RCS
speed retrieve old versions faster retrieve latest version faster
This isn't quite true:
SCCS: Linear in the size of the SCCS file for any revision.
(Retrieve any version in the same amount of time.)
RCS: O(n), where n is the number of changes between the top and the
requested version. (Retrieve old versions very slowly.)
In practice, top revision is slightly faster (for the same history)
for RCS, but small enough in either case as to not really matter (a
few seconds at most; not enough time to think about the difference).
Donn Terry
HP, Ft. Collins.
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