From: Thomas Glanzmann <sithglan@stud.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 19:01:44 GMT
Subject: Re: Mercurial 0.3 vs git benchmarks
Message-ID: <20050427190144.GA28848@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
In-Reply-To: <426FDFCD.6000309@zytor.com>

Hello,

> Directory hashing slows down operations that do linear sweeps through 
> the filesystem reading every single file, simply because without 
> dir_index, there is likely to be a correlation between inode order and 
> directory order, whereas with dir_index, readdir() returns entries in 
> hash order.

thank you for the awareness training. Than mutt should be slower, too.
Maybe I should repeat that tests.

	Thomas