From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 07:27:02 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 04/15] scalar: 'register' sets recommended config and starts maintenance
Message-ID: <87zgrxxiol.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CABPp-BG_wupp1o5bBSYOJSvF3eJjf=TbX0RBHqqKuD+3F8s6hw@mail.gmail.com>


On Mon, Sep 27 2021, Elijah Newren wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 7:39 AM Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget
> <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> wrote:
> ...
>> +               { "pack.useBitmaps", "false" },
>
> 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/