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[EGIT PATCH] Cache values of symbolic refs in RefDatabase

From
Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
Date
Dec 8, 2008, 21:48 UTC
Message-ID
<1228772936-2447-1-git-send-email-robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>

This way we avoid reading refs if the timestamp has not changed. This reduced the number of opens for reading symbolic refs like HEAD.

Signed-off-by: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
---
 .../src/org/spearce/jgit/lib/RefDatabase.java      |   19 ++++++++++++++++---
 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/org.spearce.jgit/src/org/spearce/jgit/lib/RefDatabase.java b/org.spearce.jgit/src/org/spearce/jgit/lib/RefDatabase.java
index 494aecb..4cf6e08 100644
--- a/org.spearce.jgit/src/org/spearce/jgit/lib/RefDatabase.java
+++ b/org.spearce.jgit/src/org/spearce/jgit/lib/RefDatabase.java
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@
 
 	private Map<String, Ref> looseRefs;
 	private Map<String, Long> looseRefsMTime;
+	private Map<String, String> looseSymRefs;
 
 	private final File packedRefsFile;
 
@@ -96,6 +97,7 @@ void clearCache() {
 		looseRefs = new HashMap<String, Ref>();
 		looseRefsMTime = new HashMap<String, Long>();
 		packedRefs = new HashMap<String, Ref>();
+		looseSymRefs = new HashMap<String, String>();
 		packedRefsLastModified = 0;
 		packedRefsLength = 0;
 	}
@@ -348,15 +350,26 @@ private Ref readRefBasic(final String origName, final String name, final int dep
 			return ref;
 		}
 
-		final String line;
+		String line = null;
 		try {
-			line = readLine(loose);
+			Long cachedlastModified = looseRefsMTime.get(name);
+			if (cachedlastModified != null && cachedlastModified == mtime) {
+				line = looseSymRefs.get(name);
+			}
+			if (line == null) {
+				line = readLine(loose);
+				looseRefsMTime.put(name, mtime);
+				looseSymRefs.put(name, line);
+			}
 		} catch (FileNotFoundException notLoose) {
 			return packedRefs.get(name);
 		}
 
-		if (line == null || line.length() == 0)
+		if (line == null || line.length() == 0) {
+			looseRefs.remove(origName);
+			looseRefsMTime.remove(origName);
 			return new Ref(Ref.Storage.LOOSE, origName, name, null);
+		}
 
 		if (line.startsWith("ref: ")) {
 			if (depth >= 5) {
-- 
1.6.0.3.640.g6331a
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  1. Cache values of symbolic refs in RefDatabaseRobin Rosenberg, Dec 8, 2008

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