From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nicolas Pitre Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] pack-objects: optimize "recency order" Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 18:49:57 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <1310084657-16790-1-git-send-email-gitster@pobox.com> <1310084657-16790-3-git-send-email-gitster@pobox.com> <7voc14fyy8.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: "Shawn O. Pearce" , git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jul 12 00:50:08 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QgPIl-00074u-1o for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:50:07 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758283Ab1GKWt7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jul 2011 18:49:59 -0400 Received: from relais.videotron.ca ([24.201.245.36]:38904 "EHLO relais.videotron.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758180Ab1GKWt6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jul 2011 18:49:58 -0400 Received: from xanadu.home ([66.130.28.92]) by vl-mo-mrz24.ip.videotron.ca (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-8.01 (built Dec 16 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTP id <0LO6007O4Y1P8LB0@vl-mo-mrz24.ip.videotron.ca> for git@vger.kernel.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 18:49:02 -0400 (EDT) X-X-Sender: nico@xanadu.home In-reply-to: <7voc14fyy8.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, 8 Jul 2011, Junio C Hamano wrote: > The moral of the story is that index-pack is not a workload to optimize > for ;-) and the following is a wrong patch to apply. Right. And if it was possible to slow down index-pack while speeding up the other workloads then this would actually be worthwhile because index-pack is not used as often and people are not expecting it to be fast either. Nicolas