From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:54:15 GMT
Subject: Re: Performance issue of 'git branch'
Message-ID: <20090724225415.GC6832@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0907241349390.3960@localhost.localdomain>

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 02:21:20PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> I wonder if there is some way to only load the crazy curl stuff when we 
> actually want open a http: connection.

Well, we could use dlopen(), but I'm not sure that qualifies as a
_sane_ solution --- especially given that there are approximately 15
interfaces used by git, that we'd have to resolve using dlsym().

	   	   	     	       - Ted