Re: [PATCH v4 04/15] scalar: 'register' sets recommended config and starts maintenance
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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
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- Sep 28, 2021, 07:27 UTC
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On Mon, Sep 27 2021, Elijah Newren wrote:
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> On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 7:39 AM Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
> <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> wrote:
> ...
>> + { "pack.useBitmaps", "false" },
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> I don't understand anything bitmap related, but I thought they were
> performance related, so I'm surprised by this one. Is there a reason
> for this one? (Is it handled by maintenance instead?)I don't know why Derrick did this, but there's still AFAIK cases where bitmaps are worse than not in the context of a client (the scalar use-case), see the rabbit hole starting at: https://lore.kernel.org/git/878s6nfq54.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com/