Re: [PATCH 0/9] caching loose objects

> Here's the series I mentioned earlier in the thread to cache loose
> objects when answering has_object_file(..., OBJECT_INFO_QUICK). For
> those just joining us, this makes operations that look up a lot of
> missing objects (like "index-pack" looking for collisions) faster. This
> is mostly targeted at systems where stat() is slow, like over NFS, but
> it seems to give a 2% speedup indexing a full git.git packfile into an
> empty repository (i.e., what you'd see on a clone).
>
> I'm adding René Scharfe and Takuto Ikuta to the cc for their previous
> work in loose-object caching.
>
> The interesting bit is patch 8. The rest of it is cleanup to let us
> treat alternates and the main object directory similarly.