From: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2021 15:31:01 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] cache-tree: avoid path comparison loop when silent
Message-ID: <30ddf1bd-b315-a399-3016-dcc4f9d7d3b5@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <3ed37ae6-1f09-bd6b-c9d9-c8089da1af92@gmail.com>

Am 31.12.20 um 17:46 schrieb Derrick Stolee:
> To wrap up, I'm going to eject this patch from my v2 since more investigation
> must be done to see if this second loop _can_ be dropped. At minimum, it isn't
> properly silent when requested and there _is_ a performance boost possible,
> even if we keep the check.

OK.  It *is* suspicious that the test suite doesn't exercise the check done by
that second loop.  Removing it completely would rob us of so many ways to
optimize it, though. ;-)

René