From: Laurent Alebarde <l.alebarde@free.fr>
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 18:28:52 GMT
Subject: Is Git multithreaded ?
Message-ID: <51B8BDE4.7030008@free.fr>
In-Reply-To: <51B8BBC0.6020908@free.fr>

Hi list,

I wonder if Git is multithreaded ? For example, during a commit, does it 
process the files one after one, or does it use a set of threads, say 
10, to process 10 files in parrallel ?

In the Git_Guide (http://wiki.sourcemage.org/Git_Guide.html), I can read 
this :

"T/o enable aut-detection for number of threads to use (good for 
multi-CPU or multi-core computers) for packing repositories, use: /////

////

///$ git config --global pack.threads "0"/  "

But it is not a lot explanatory (to me). In particular, if Git is 
multithreded and can be configured regarding the number of workers, I 
wonder in which operations it uses it ?

A clear view of this may be of interrest for hooks or filters that may 
use a daemon, in order to not have this daemon be a bottle-neck. It 
would make sense to start as many workers in the daemon that there are 
authorized ones in Git.

Cheers,


Laurent.