Re: irc usage..

From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date: May 22, 2006, 23:15 UTC
Message-ID: <46a038f90605221615j59583bcdqf128bab31603148e@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v8xotadm3.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On 5/23/06, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:

> > I simply was too lazy to count the actual filenames' lengths. ;-)
>
> I think cvsimport predates that option, but these days that loop
> can be optimized by feeding --index-info from standard input.

Oh, yep, that'd be a good addition. I think we can also cut down on the number of fork+exec calls (as Linus points out they are killing us) by caching some data we should already have that we are repeatedly asking from git-ref-parse.

Other TODOs from my reading of the code last night...

 - Switch from line-oriented reads to block reads when fetching files
from CVS. This gentoo has repo has some large binary blobs in it and
we end up slurping them into memory.

 - Stop abusing globals in commit() -- pass the commit data as parameters.

 - Further profiling? Whatever we are doing, we aren't doing it fast :(

Will be trying to do those things in the next few days, don't mind if someone jumps in as well.

martin