Re: GSoC Application [ Parallelism + Git.pm ]
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Subho Banerjee <subs.zero@gmail.com>
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- Mar 21, 2012, 13:53 UTC
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Hello, Thanks for the links. Those really helped. This threading that will have to be done, will this have to platform independent, for example will it be used in windows without cygwin?
Cheers, Subho.
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> wrote:
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> Subho Banerjee <subs.zero@gmail.com> writes:
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> > * In the first one, which wants to parallelize certain commands in
> > git, I believe the major challenges will be to actually find a large
> > list of commands which can be parallelized.In addition to the commands
> > mentioned in the Ideas page, only other place I currently think of
> > exploiting parallelism is in traversing the commit tree when one is
> > cloning a repository. I would really like it if someone can suggest
> > more places where this sort of parallelism might be usable, so that I
> > could use that to make a more complete application. I believe one of
> > the major difficulties I will initially face, is my unfamiliarity with
> > the code. This makes finding these commands which might have better
> > performance with parallelism a little difficult.
>
> Please read my reply to Felipe in the other thread:
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> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/193352/focus=193574
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> as I'd have to repeat myself.
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> --
> Thomas Rast
> trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch