From: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 10:33:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Avoid running lstat(2) on the same cache entry.
Message-ID: <07FDB6ED-EBE0-4F66-9167-6A0F8AD58E2B@zib.de>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0801200142170.5731@racer.site>


On Jan 20, 2008, at 2:48 AM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

>> I bet you'll see a much bigger performance improvement from this on
>> Windows in particular.
>
> I bet so, too.  Traditionally, filesystem calls are painfully slow on
> Windows.
>
> But I cannot test before Monday, so I would not be mad if somebody  
> else
> could perform some tests on Windows.

Has someone collected the whole series on a topic branch?  I did
not follow the discussion closely and apparently more than Linus'
patch is needed.  I couldn't immediately figure out which of the
patches from the thread should be applied in what order.

	Steffen