From: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2017 22:54:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 4/4] read-cache: speed up add_index_entry during checkout
Message-ID: <20170405225453.2632-1-szeder.dev@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170405173809.3098-5-git@jeffhostetler.com>

> Teach add_index_entry_with_check() and has_dir_name()
> to see if the path of the new item is greater than the
> last path in the index array before attempting to search
> for it.
> 
> During checkout, merge_working_tree() populates the new
> index in sorted order, so this change saves at least 2
> lookups per file.

I think the performance numbers from the cover letter should be
included here, so they will be included in the history.

> Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>