From: Shawn O. Pearce Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:59:17 GMT Subject: Re: Performance issue of 'git branch' Message-ID: <20090724225917.GA11191@spearce.org> In-Reply-To: <20090724225415.GC6832@mit.edu> Theodore Tso wrote: > 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.