Re: Mercurial 0.3 vs git benchmarks

From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Date: Apr 27, 2005, 20:47 UTC
Message-ID: <87br8054m3.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>
In-Reply-To: <426FF799.4000501@zytor.com>

* H. Peter Anvin:

> Only if you read every single file in each directory every time.  I 
> thought mutt did header indexing and thus didn't need to do that.

There was a patch for Mutt which implemented header indexing, but it was buggy and had to be removed (from Debian). After that, directory sorting (actually, it's a merge sort 8-) practically became mandatory on ext3 with directory hashing.

I think that in the meantime, the has been integrated into upstream CVS (I don't know if it's been released as a developer snapshot, though). The header indexing patch may have been revived for Debian, I think it was fixed recently.

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