Harry Sintonen <[email protected]> writes:

> Building CVS with USE_MMAP undefined (and thus using the
> posix_memalign code) results in full checkout taking minutes vs hours.

I'll need some time to look at the rest of this, but just wanted to
mention that building CVS from the upstream repository will produce a
binary with some nasty vulnerabilities. Distributions have lots of
patches they apply for their repositories, see Fedora for example [1].

Thanks,
Collin

[1] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/cvs/tree/rawhide

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