From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 20:59:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xdiff: load full words in the inner loop of xdl_hash_record
Message-ID: <7v62e9r0wz.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <877gypr319.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch>

Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch> writes:

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> writes:
>>
>>> Also definitely post-v1.7.10 material, but I figure many people will
>>> be interested.  Since it's such a central part of much of git, it's
>>> also quite important that it gets tested heavily.
>>
>> I am interested but this is a material not beyond 'pu'.  Until it
>> learns to be nice on platforms that do not like unaligned accesses
>> or use big endian, that is.
>
> Umm, nice how?  It leaves in the old version for those platforms.

Ah, I misread the patch and somehow thought you are unconditionally
replacing the code with the optimized one.

No, I didn't mean to suggest autodetection.