From: Ray Donnelly <mingw.android@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
git@vger.kernel.org, musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Regression: git no longer works with musl libc's regex impl
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2016 19:00:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOYw7duf6VbtB3eL-z2b6TL+Wc7PRuARpfi-nwANnF9N0-2NBA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1610041915320.35196@virtualbox>
On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 6:16 PM, Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi Rich,
>
> On Tue, 4 Oct 2016, Rich Felker wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 06:08:33PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>> > Hi Rich,
>> >
>> > On Tue, 4 Oct 2016, Rich Felker wrote:
>> >
>> > > On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 11:27:22AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
>> > > > On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 11:08:48AM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > > 1. is nonzero mod page size, it just works; the remainder of the last
>> > > > > page reads as zero bytes when mmapped.
>> > > >
>> > > > Is that a portable assumption?
>> > >
>> > > Yes.
>> >
>> > No, it is not. You quote POSIX, but the matter of the fact is that we use
>> > a subset of POSIX in order to be able to keep things running on Windows.
>> >
>> > And quite honestly, there are lots of reasons to keep things running on
>> > Windows, and even to favor Windows support over musl support. Over four
>> > million reasons: the Git for Windows users.
>>
>> I would hope that in the future, git-for-windows users will be using
>> musl, via midipix, rather than the painfully slow and awful version
>> they're stuck with now...
>
> Git for Windows actually uses the MSVC runtime, which is blazing fast.
>
> You are probably confusing Git for Windows with Cygwin Git.
To be fair, Cygwin Git isn't *that* slow, though I look forward to the
day when MSYS2 can use the native-Windows/GfW version instead
(including your rebase-in-C changes)
>
> Ciao,
> Johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-04 18:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-04 15:08 Regression: git no longer works with musl libc's regex impl Rich Felker
2016-10-04 15:27 ` Jeff King
2016-10-04 15:40 ` Rich Felker
2016-10-04 16:08 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-10-04 16:11 ` Rich Felker
2016-10-04 17:16 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-10-04 18:00 ` Ray Donnelly [this message]
2016-10-04 17:39 ` [musl] " Rich Felker
2016-10-05 11:17 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-10-05 13:01 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2016-10-05 13:15 ` Rich Felker
2016-10-04 22:06 ` James B
2016-10-04 22:33 ` Rich Felker
2016-10-04 22:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-05 13:11 ` Jakub Narębski
2016-10-05 16:15 ` [musl] " Rich Felker
2016-10-05 10:41 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-10-05 11:59 ` James B
2016-10-05 16:11 ` Jeff King
2016-10-05 16:27 ` Rich Felker
2016-10-06 10:44 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-10-06 19:18 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2016-10-06 19:23 ` Jeff King
2016-10-06 19:25 ` Rich Felker
2016-10-06 19:28 ` Jeff King
2016-10-06 22:42 ` Ramsay Jones
2016-10-07 11:30 ` Jakub Narębski
2016-10-04 16:01 ` Johannes Schindelin
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