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[EGIT PATCH 3/9] Use mmap per default.

From
Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
Date
Feb 28, 2007, 22:26 UTC
Message-ID
<20070228222621.12021.65339.stgit@lathund.dewire.com>
In-Reply-To
<20070228222355.12021.13029.stgit@lathund.dewire.com>

A small test of mine show a tenfold speed improvemnt looking for a blob while scanning the history (11K commit, blob three trees down). This was on a x86 platform. For other platforms Shawn noted that memory mapping was about 10% slower than normall reading of files.

Signed-off-by: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
---
 .../src/org/spearce/jgit/lib/PackFile.java         |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/org.spearce.jgit/src/org/spearce/jgit/lib/PackFile.java b/org.spearce.jgit/src/org/spearce/jgit/lib/PackFile.java
index ee4b8a1..d33aa97 100644
--- a/org.spearce.jgit/src/org/spearce/jgit/lib/PackFile.java
+++ b/org.spearce.jgit/src/org/spearce/jgit/lib/PackFile.java
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ public class PackFile {
 		repo = parentRepo;
 		// FIXME window size and mmap type should be configurable
 		pack = new WindowedFile(repo.getWindowCache(), packFile,
-				64 * 1024 * 1024, false);
+				64 * 1024 * 1024, true);
 		try {
 			readPackHeader();
 
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ public class PackFile {
 					+ ".idx");
 			// FIXME window size and mmap type should be configurable
 			idx = new WindowedFile(repo.getWindowCache(), idxFile,
-					64 * 1024 * 1024, false);
+					64 * 1024 * 1024, true);
 			try {
 				idxHeader = readIndexHeader();
 			} catch (IOException ioe) {
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Message 4 of 12 in “Misc minor fixes”
  1. 0/9 Misc minor fixesRobin Rosenberg, Feb 28, 2007
  2. 1/9 Minor fix.Robin Rosenberg, Feb 28, 2007
  3. 2/9 Catch mmap errors and retry.Robin Rosenberg, Feb 28, 2007
  4. 3/9 Use mmap per default.Robin Rosenberg, Feb 28, 2007
  5. 4/9 Add .qualifier to the plugin version.Robin Rosenberg, Feb 28, 2007
  6. 5/9 Force full checkpoint for CheckpointOperation.Robin Rosenberg, Feb 28, 2007
  7. 6/9 Add branch and StGit patch to decoratorRobin Rosenberg, Feb 28, 2007
  8. Shawn O. PearceMar 1, 2007
  9. Robin RosenbergMar 1, 2007
  10. 7/9 Support tag objectsRobin Rosenberg, Feb 28, 2007
  11. 8/9 Handle odd tag formats created by tools such as cvsimport.Robin Rosenberg, Feb 28, 2007
  12. 9/9 Performance test for jgit.Robin Rosenberg, Feb 28, 2007

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