Re: cloning the kernel - why long time in "Resolving 313037 deltas"

From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Dec 22, 2006, 01:56 UTC
Message-ID: <20061222015656.GE14773@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <991F50E2-2C98-4710-84C5-3D7348E00B64@mac.com>

Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com> wrote:

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> Just as an example, it takes my OS-X-running Quad-2.5GHz G5 ten times  
> as long to do a "grep -rl foo linux/" as my Linux-running dual-1GHz  
> G4 with 400MHz system bus.  This is disk-cache-hot too.  And that's  
> not even a stat-heavy workload.  There's more than one reason I'm  
> trying to make a Mac OS X ABI emulation layer on top of Linux :-D.

Try 'git grep foo' instead; its very fast if you are working with a fully packed Git repository.

Doesn't help any other application on Mac OS X however. :-(

-- 
Shawn.

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