Re: [PATCH v3 3/5] sha1_name: Unroll len loop in find_unique_abbrev_r

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> writes:

> p0008.1: find_unique_abbrev() for existing objects
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> For 10 repeated tests, each checking 100,000 known objects, we find the
> following results when running in a Linux VM:
>
> |       | Pack  | Packed  | Loose  | Base   | New    |         |
> | Repo  | Files | Objects | Objects| Time   | Time   | Rel%    |
> |-------|-------|---------|--------|--------|--------|---------|
> | Git   |     1 |  230078 |      0 | 0.09 s | 0.06 s | - 33.3% |
> | Git   |     5 |  230162 |      0 | 0.11 s | 0.08 s | - 27.3% |
> | Git   |     4 |  154310 |  75852 | 0.09 s | 0.07 s | - 22.2% |
> | Linux |     1 | 5606645 |      0 | 0.12 s | 0.32 s | +146.2% |
> | Linux |    24 | 5606645 |      0 | 1.12 s | 1.12 s | -  0.9% |
> | Linux |    23 | 5283204 | 323441 | 1.08 s | 1.05 s | -  2.8% |
> | VSTS  |     1 | 4355923 |      0 | 0.12 s | 0.23 s | + 91.7% |
> | VSTS  |    32 | 4355923 |      0 | 1.02 s | 1.08 s | +  5.9% |
> | VSTS  |    31 | 4276829 |  79094 | 2.25 s | 2.08 s | -  7.6% |

The above does not look so good, especially in cases where a
repository is well maintained by packing into smaller number of
packs, we get much worse result?

> p0008.2: find_unique_abbrev() for missing objects
> -------------------------------------------------
>
> For 10 repeated tests, each checking 100,000 missing objects, we find
> the following results when running in a Linux VM:
>
> |       | Pack  | Packed  | Loose  | Base   | New    |        |
> | Repo  | Files | Objects | Objects| Time   | Time   | Rel%   |
> |-------|-------|---------|--------|--------|--------|--------|
> | Git   |     1 |  230078 |      0 | 0.66 s | 0.08 s | -87.9% |
> | Git   |     5 |  230162 |      0 | 0.90 s | 0.13 s | -85.6% |
> | Git   |     4 |  154310 |  75852 | 0.79 s | 0.10 s | -87.3% |
> | Linux |     1 | 5606645 |      0 | 0.48 s | 0.32 s | -33.3% |
> | Linux |    24 | 5606645 |      0 | 4.41 s | 1.09 s | -75.3% |
> | Linux |    23 | 5283204 | 323441 | 4.11 s | 0.99 s | -75.9% |
> | VSTS  |     1 | 4355923 |      0 | 0.46 s | 0.25 s | -45.7% |
> | VSTS  |    32 | 4355923 |      0 | 5.40 s | 1.15 s | -78.7% |
> | VSTS  |    31 | 4276829 |  79094 | 5.88 s | 1.18 s | -79.9% |

The question is if this is even measuring a relevant workload.  How
often would we have a full 40-hex object name for which we actually
do not have the object, and ask its name to be abbreviated?

Compared to it, the result from p0008.1 feels a lot more important.
We know we make tons of "abbreviate the object name for this object
we have" and we see them every day in our "git log -p" output.

Seeing a lot more impressive result from p0008.2 than p0008.1 makes
me unsure if this patch is optimizing for the right case.

I'll have to see the code a bit deeper before I can comment on it.

Thanks.