Re: [PATCH v1] read-cache: speed up index load through parallelization

> On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 7:33 PM Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> wrote:
>>> +core.fastIndex::
>>> +       Enable parallel index loading
>>> ++
>>> +This can speed up operations like 'git diff' and 'git status' especially
>>> +when the index is very large.  When enabled, Git will do the index
>>> +loading from the on disk format to the in-memory format in parallel.
>>> +Defaults to true.
>> "fast" is a non-descriptive word as we try to be fast in any operation?
>> Maybe core.parallelIndexReading as that just describes what it
>> turns on/off, without second guessing its effects?
> Another option is index.threads (the "index" section currently only
> has one item, index.version). The value could be the same as
> grep.threads or pack.threads.
>
> (and if you're thinking about parallelizing write as well but it
> should be tuned differently, then perhaps index.readThreads, but I
> don't think we need to go that far)