Re: [PATCH 22/40] Windows: Implement asynchronous functions as threads.

From: Paul Franz <thefranz@comcast.net>
Date: Feb 29, 2008, 03:08 UTC
Message-ID: <47C77720.2080405@comcast.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802290150440.22527@racer.site>

Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> Hi,
>
> [top-posting?]
>

Is there something wrong with it?

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> On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Paul Franz wrote:
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>> True there are the legal issues. And it is not known if it would help on 
>> other platforms. My may concern is Windows because if git could be made 
>> available without some of msysGit's requirements. It would definitely 
>> make it more palletable (sp?) to that community which is a large chunk 
>> of developers, including my own work environment. I would love to switch 
>> from ClearCase to git but there are issues. One of them is integration 
>> with the Windows environment.
>>     
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> I think that you do not help the effort to bring Git to Windows, by 
> suggesting even more work, for dubitable benefits.
>
> And that is what I think of APR here.
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> NOTE: my only experience with APR on Windows is to get git-svn to compile, 
> and there it was not only a PITA.  The result is _SLOW_.
>

Thanks for the info.

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>> Another concern is performance penalty of using non-native calls under 
>> Windows and that is one of the problems that I was hoping the using APR 
>> would solve. I figure if it is good enough to support the network stuff 
>> under Windows well maybe it would be good for git too.
>>     
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> The problems with Git and Windows are not network related.  They are with 
> Windows' pitiful performance when it comes to spawn processes.
>

Which makes me believe that it sounds like git depends on spawning processes being cheap.

> IMO your efforts to help Git on Windows would be better spent on the 
> msysGit list, where you would learn about the real issues we face.
>

Excuse my ignorance, could you tell me where the mysGit list is, so that I can subscribe?

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> Ciao,
> Dscho
>
>
>

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