From: Giovanni Bajo <rasky@develer.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:26:54 GMT
Subject: Re: Git and GCC
Message-ID: <4759AC8E.3070102@develer.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0712070919590.7274@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On 12/7/2007 6:23 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:

>> Is SHA a significant portion of the compute during these repacks?
>> I should run oprofile...
> 
> SHA1 is almost totally insignificant on x86. It hardly shows up. But we 
> have a good optimized version there.
> 
> zlib tends to be a lot more noticeable (especially the uncompression: it 
> may be faster than compression, but it's done _so_ much more that it 
> totally dominates).

Have you considered alternatives, like:
http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/ucl/
-- 
Giovanni Bajo