From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 07:54:55 GMT
Subject: Re: Performance issue of 'git branch'
Message-ID: <20090726075455.GA22525@glandium.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0907251353410.3960@localhost.localdomain>

On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 02:02:19PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, Mike Hommey wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 09:57:39PM +0300, Timo Hirvonen wrote:
> > > Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > So curl really must die. It may not matter for the expensive operations, 
> > > > but a lot of scripting is about running all those "cheap" things that just 
> > > > add up over time.
> > > 
> > > SELinux is the problem, not curl.
> > 
> > I think it's NSS, the problem, not SELinux. Linus's libcurl is built
> > against NSS, which is the default on Fedora.
> 
> Well, it kind of doesn't matter. The fact is, libcurl is a bloated 
> monster, and adds zero to 99% of what git people do.

Especially consideting the http transport fails to be useful in various
scenarios.

Mike