Re: performance on repack
- From
David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
- Date
- Aug 11, 2007, 22:09 UTC
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"Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com> writes:
> If anyone is bored and looking for something to do, making the delta > code in git repack multithreaded would help.
I severely doubt that. It is like the "coding stuff in assembly language will make it faster" myth. The problem is that of manageable complexity. Making the stuff multithreaded or coded in assembly means that it becomes inaccessible for a sound algorithmic redesign.
And anything that takes this long on today's machines has lots of room for algorithmic improvement, usually resulting in a speedup from one to several orders of magnitude.
-- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum