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From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: gitster@pobox.com, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Drastic jump in the time required for the test suite
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 20:41:29 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161027204129.GA21619@starla> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1610191049040.3847@virtualbox>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> I know you are a fan of testing things thoroughly in the test suite, but I
> have to say that it is getting out of hand, in particular due to our
> over-use of shell script idioms (which really only run fast on Linux, not
> a good idea for a portable software).

How much effort would it take to optimize a /bin/sh?

Would replacing uses of fork+execve posix_spawn be fast and
portable enough?

Even on Linux, performance sucks for me.  I've been hoping dash
can use posix_spawn (or using vfork directly) to see if that can
help things.

That won't help with subshells, though...

(I'm back to using a Centrino laptop from 2005)

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-10-27 20:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-19  9:18 Drastic jump in the time required for the test suite Johannes Schindelin
2016-10-19 17:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-19 20:56   ` Jeff King
2016-10-20 10:50     ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-10-20 11:39       ` Jeff King
2016-10-20 19:54       ` Stefan Beller
2016-10-20 21:38         ` Jeff King
2016-10-20 21:53           ` Stefan Beller
2016-10-20 21:57             ` Jeff King
2016-10-20 21:56           ` Jeff King
2016-10-21  5:27           ` Johannes Sixt
2016-10-21  8:24             ` Jeff King
2016-10-20 10:17   ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-10-20 12:31     ` Jeff King
2016-10-20 16:30       ` Stefan Beller
2016-10-20 21:00         ` Jeff King
2016-10-20 23:20           ` Jeff King
2016-10-20 20:38       ` Johannes Sixt
2016-10-20 21:03         ` Jeff King
2016-10-20 20:40       ` Dennis Kaarsemaker
2016-10-21 11:03         ` Duy Nguyen
2016-10-20 16:16     ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-20 17:13       ` Matthieu Moy
2016-10-20 11:02 ` Duy Nguyen
2016-10-20 16:40   ` René Scharfe
2016-10-21 10:59     ` Duy Nguyen
2016-10-21 20:28       ` René Scharfe
2016-10-21 13:10     ` Matthieu Moy
2016-10-21 19:57       ` René Scharfe
2016-10-27 20:41 ` Eric Wong [this message]
2016-10-28  6:38   ` Duy Nguyen

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