From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:43:27 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/4] rev-cache: basic implementation + full docs + tests
Message-ID: <81b0412b0907031443r1c49e8c4r598b3cf16eb641a8@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <op.uwhy8r14tdk399@sirnot>

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 17:13, Nick Edelen<sirnot@gmail.com> wrote:
> Traversing objects is currently very costly, as every commit and tree must be loaded and parsed.  Much time and energy could be saved by caching metadata and topological info in an efficient, easily accessible manner.  Furthermore, this could improve git's interfacing potential, by providing a condensed summary of a repository's commit tree.

Do you have any benchmarks? How much improvement does it
mean for _common_ operations?