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Re: Performance issue of 'git branch'

From
Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
Jul 24, 2009, 22:59 UTC
Message-ID
<20090724225917.GA11191@spearce.org>
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<20090724225415.GC6832@mit.edu>
Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
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> 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().
Yea, that's not sane.

Probably the better approach is to have git fetch and git push be a different binary from main git, so we only pay the libcurl loading overheads when we hit transport.

-- 
Shawn.
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  47. Daniel BarkalowJul 25, 2009
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  49. Theodore TsoJul 24, 2009
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  51. Junio C HamanoJul 24, 2009
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