From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:50:02 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Using index-pack in place of verify-pack
Message-ID: <7v39n8hrbp.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110228165827.GB24915@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> I'm not at all interested in this topic, but in the time it took the two
> of you to write your emails, I did this:
>
>   $ cd linux-2.6
>
>   $ time git verify-pack \
>       .git/objects/pack/pack-36c50f6082df404c26a699f2702946e0cce6208f.idx
>   real    2m37.338s
>   user    2m35.874s
>   sys     0m1.348s
>
>   $ time git index-pack --verify \
>       .git/objects/pack/pack-36c50f6082df404c26a699f2702946e0cce6208f.pack
>   real    1m37.208s
>   user    1m36.106s
>   sys     0m1.048s
>
>
> OK, with the CPU time it probably took longer than your emails. But I
> ate some ice cream while it computed. :)

I guess my box is showing its age.  It is 2m34s vs 3m25s for the kernel
repository packed with depth=50 (the default).

A pack created with insanely deep depth of course shows larger difference
(2m31s vs 4m38s for the same repository repacked with depth=8192).