From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:23:16 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Optimize rename detection for a huge diff
Message-ID: <7vk5l9qhnv.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <864pcd9n0e.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> ...
>> We cannot make it 1-bit unsigned bitfield as there is a qsort
>> comparison callback that does (b->name_score - a->name_score).
>
> Hm?  Can't that be changed into ...

Sorry, my "we cannot" was misleading.  We do not have anything
else that we need to store that is 15-bit, so even if we can, it
won't gain us anything.