From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Journal of Failed Git Experiments, Volume 1
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2016 16:17:28 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1609251614040.129229@virtualbox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160914235547.h3n2otje2hec6u7k@sigill.intra.peff.net>
Hi Peff,
On Wed, 14 Sep 2016, Jeff King wrote:
> I try a lot of different experiments with git performance, some of them
> more hare-brained than others. The ones that succeed end up as real
> patches. But I hate for the ones that fail to die a quiet death. Then
> nobody learns what _doesn't_ work, and nobody has the opportunity to
> point out the spot where I made a stupid mistake that invalidates the
> whole result.
To show those experiments, with analysis, is a really good idea.
I found the zstd experiment in particular very educating, as I wondered
about the same: could we maybe use it to accelerate Git operations? Now I
know.
Ciao,
Dscho
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-25 14:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-14 23:55 Journal of Failed Git Experiments, Volume 1 Jeff King
2016-09-14 23:56 ` [PATCH 1/2] obj_hash: convert to a critbit tree Jeff King
2016-09-15 0:52 ` Stefan Beller
2016-09-15 1:13 ` Jeff King
2016-09-14 23:58 ` [PATCH 2/2] use zstd zlib wrapper Jeff King
2016-09-15 1:22 ` Stefan Beller
2016-09-15 6:28 ` Jeff King
2016-09-25 14:17 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
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