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From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Make the git codebase thread-safe
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 09:11:59 +0700
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On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Stefan Zager <szager@chromium.org> wrote:
> We in the chromium project have a keen interest in adding threading to
> git in the pursuit of performance for lengthy operations (checkout,
> status, blame, ...).  Our motivation comes from hitting some
> performance walls when working with repositories the size of chromium
> and blink:
>
> https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src
> https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/blink

I have no comments about thread safety improvements (well, not yet).
If you have investigated about git performance on chromium
repositories, could you please sum it up? Threading may be an option
to improve performance, but it's probably not the only option.
-- 
Duy