From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 20:00:26 GMT Subject: Re: git status takes 30 seconds on Windows 7. Why? Message-ID: <7vy5d8lijp.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Linus Torvalds writes: > On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Jeff King wrote: >> >> Yes, I think that's pretty much the case (though most of my >> Git-on-Windows experience is from cygwin long ago, where the stat >> performance was truly horrendous). Have you tried setting >> core.preloadindex, which should run the stats in parallel? > > I wonder if preloadindex shouldn't be enabled by default. I am surprised that we haven't done so. Given that we haven't tweaked the parallelism or thread-cost parameters since the inception of the mechanism in Nov 2008, I suspect that we would see praises from some and grievances from other corners of the user base for a while until we find acceptable values for them, but I agree the feature has been in use sufficiently by some people (heh, I just discovered that I don't have it in my config), it can be the default.