Re: git sequencer prototype
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Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
- Date
- Jul 31, 2008, 12:40 UTC
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Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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> On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, Stephan Beyer wrote: > > Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > > > > > In the last patchset I mentioned the issue, that the prototype is > > > > slow as hell. I know some bottlenecks, but I have not even tried to > > > > change that, because this is no issue for the builtin. > > > > > > Why is it no issue for the builtin? Is it so much different from the > > > prototype? > > > > As Sverre pointed out and as my "experiments" tried to show: the builtin > > is just fast ;-) > > So why is it just so fast? Does it do things completely different than > the shell prototype you presented?
Ah, that's the point of your question ;)
No, it's different in some minor parts, of course, but the important thing is: it is C, not sh. That's what makes it faster.
Regards.
-- Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>, PGP 0x6EDDD207FCC5040F