From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Cc: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>,
Joshua Juran <jjuran@gmail.com>,
Finn Arne Gangstad <finnag@pvv.org>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: inotify daemon speedup for git [POC/HACK]
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 06:09:55 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3pqy7kb2z.fsf@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimkLrTwavErFkyaUTSVU-2s3me5f+cyqNFp7n+D@mail.gmail.com>
Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com> writes:
> For speed, the bup index can just mark entries as deleted using a flag
> rather than actually rewriting the whole indexfile. Unfortunately, I
> failed to make it sufficiently flexible to *add* new entries without
> needing to rewrite the whole thing. In bup, that's a big deal
> (especially since python is kind of slow and there are typically >1
> million files in the index). In git, it's maybe not so bad; after
> all, the current implementation rewrites the index *every* time and
> nobody notices.
Sidenote: couldn't you do what e.g. Mercurial did, i.e. rewrite
critical for performance parts in C?
--
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-28 13:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-27 12:20 inotify daemon speedup for git [POC/HACK] Finn Arne Gangstad
2010-07-27 23:29 ` Avery Pennarun
2010-07-27 23:39 ` Joshua Juran
2010-07-27 23:51 ` Avery Pennarun
2010-07-28 0:00 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2010-07-28 0:18 ` Avery Pennarun
2010-07-28 1:14 ` Joshua Juran
2010-07-28 1:31 ` Avery Pennarun
2010-07-28 6:03 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-07-28 6:06 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-07-28 7:44 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-07-28 11:08 ` Theodore Tso
2010-07-28 8:20 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2010-08-13 17:53 ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-07-28 13:09 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2010-07-28 13:06 ` Jakub Narebski
2010-08-13 17:58 ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-07-27 23:58 ` Sverre Rabbelier
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