From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 23:38:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] speedup allocation in pack-redundant.c
Message-ID: <20051122233845.GC2916@steel.home>
In-Reply-To: <4383A66D.2030201@etek.chalmers.se>

Lukas Sandström, Wed, Nov 23, 2005 00:14:53 +0100:
> >>I think making allocation/deallocation to the central place is a
> >>good cleanup, but I am not sure about the free-nodes reusing.
> >>Does this make difference in real life?
> > 
> > It definitely does, though nor very much. I have no real numbers at
> > hand (being home now), but I remember it was 1 min with against 3 min
> > without the patch on cygwin+fat32, which is already bad enough all by
> > itself. Very big repository with no redundant packs in it.
> 
> Would you mind sharing the .idx files?

this time I probably would (they're not here)... But for a perfomance
testing any big repository will do, linux kernel, for example.