From: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:07:15 GMT
Subject: Re: Git is not scalable with too many refs/*
Message-ID: <4E81AE63.8040008@alum.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <22f055b34840e3c64f3339f7b3dc6920@quantumfyre.co.uk>

On 09/27/2011 11:01 AM, Julian Phillips wrote:
> It has to be hot-cache, otherwise time taken to read the refs from disk
> will mean that it is always slow.  On my Mac it seems to _always_ be
> slow reading the refs from disk, so even the "fast" case still takes ~17m.

This case should be helped by lazy-loading of loose references, which I
am working on.  So if you develop some benchmarking code, it would help
me with my work.

Michael

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