Re: Git benchmarks at OpenOffice.org wiki

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: May 2, 2007, 11:33 UTC
Message-ID: <8fe92b430705020433v7ae5c117qdefccc791cd07fff@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705020143460.4010@racer.site>

Hi!

On 5/2/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> On Tue, 1 May 2007, Jakub Narebski wrote:
>
> > 'Checkout time' (which should be renamed to 'Initial checkout time'),
> > in which git also loses with 130 minutes (Linux, 2MBit DSL) [from
> > go-oo.org], 100min (Linux, 2MBit DSL, Wireless, no proxy) [from
> > go-oo.org] versus 117 minutes (Linux, 2MBit DSL), 26 minutes (Linux,
> > 2MBit DSL, with compression (-z 6)) for CVS, and  60 Minutes (Windows,
> > 34Mbit Line) for Subversion, would also be helped by the above.
>
> FWIW I can confirm the number "100min".
>
> Something I realized with pain is that the refs/ directory is 24MB big.
> Yep. Really. They have 3464 heads and 2639 tags. I suspect that this is
> the reason why.

Then packed refs would certainly help with speed and a bit with size.

-- 
Jakub Narebski