From: Carlos R. Mafra <crmafra2@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:41:22 GMT
Subject: Re: Performance issue of 'git branch'
Message-ID: <20090725004122.GA28477@Pilar.aei.mpg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20090724234648.GA4616@Pilar.aei.mpg.de>

On Sat 25.Jul'09 at  1:46:48 +0200, Carlos R. Mafra wrote:
> 
> So I guess that my tests here for your NO_CURL=1 idea is inconclusive,
> as I am not sure what preload is prefetching.

Ok, so I killed /usr/sbin/preload and did the tests again. The 
results were much more stable, with average 0.40 vs 0.79
(NO_CURL=1 being faster). The pagefaults were pretty stable too,
(40major+654minor vs 12major+401minor). 

I will use NO_CURL=1 from now on!