From: Michael Lukashov <michael.lukashov@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:18:56 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Windows: improve performance by avoiding a static dependency on ws2_32.dll and advapi32.dll
Message-ID: <63cde7731001280218g29a63094od4f5a8135c6986a4@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4B61543F.6020904@viscovery.net>

> Thanks. Due to the size of the change, I would acknowledge it only if you
> have a proof that the reduced startup costs are noticable, for example, by
> running the test suite.
>
> What's the deal with bswap? Isn't it an unrelated change? It needs some
> better justification. It is unobvious because it is not straight-forward
> "use pointer to function that was looked up instead of function".
>
> Will the result not break the MSVC build?
>
> -- Hannes
>

"git status" calls ntohs function, which was loaded from ws2_32.dll
I've noticed that bswap.h contains implementation of ntohl htonl functions,
so I decided to add implementation of ntohs htons functions, which is
pretty trivial.
After that call to "git status" doesn't load ws2_32.dll