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Performance results of Plastic SCM

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How does Plastic compare to other version control systems in pure speed?

We frequently benchmark Plastic against other key version control systems in key operations such as add, checkin, add + checkin (adding the entire codebase to the version control) and update (downloading the entire codebase to a clean directory).
We’ve compared Plastic SCM v 8.0, Git version 2.20.1.windows.1 and a Perforce (Helix) version 2018.2. We’ve done so with 2 types of codebases: small and medium.

SMALL - 63,105 files 4,212 directories - 775 MB
The code for the SMALL repo is the Linux kernel

Plastic is 8 times faster than Perforce Helix Core doing add + checkin

Plastic is 5.7 times faster than Git – consider that Git is checking in locally while Plastic is sending data through the network from client to server

MEDIUM - 182,749 files 14,852 directories - 7.16GB
The code for the MEDIUM repo is created as follows: linux + mono + openoffice + alienarena + war.dat

Plastic is 5.2 times faster than Perforce Helix Core doing add + checkin

Plastic is 5.3 times faster than Git – consider that Git is checking in locally while Plastic is sending data through the network from client to server.

Hardware configuration:

  • Hardware setup

    CPU: 4 vCPUs, (x64) / Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-26700 @ 2.60GHz

    RAM: 15 GB

    Network: 1.3Gbps

    OS: Windows Server 2012

  • Disk IO:

    Read speed: 325MB/sec (HDTune)

    Write speed: 195Mb/s (cm iostats)

Software configuration:

  • Plastic SCM is configured for concurrency as follows:

    DownloadPoolSize = 3

    UploadCompressionSize = 3

    UploadReadPoolSize = 3

    Upload_SendDataThreadCount = 3

  • Perforce Helix Core is configured for concurrency as follows:

    --parallel=threads=3 for submit (checkin) and sync (update).

  • Git does not allow concurrency configuration