From: Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org>
Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2020 17:16:26 GMT
Subject: Re: fread reading directories
Message-ID: <CACNAnaHBPeg1SMMGUdErKnn12bGo8t3O7LU6Yktw40B7bKfBGA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqd06an6wf.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>

On Sun, Jun 7, 2020 at 12:05 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org> writes:
>
> > I was looking at FREAD_READS_DIRECTORIES to measure some performance
> > differences, then stumbled upon [0] that dropped fread() from the
> > autoconf test that causes git to use its git_fopen shim [1] even on
> > Linux.
>
> I thought we saw this mentioned recently?  I do not recall if
> any concrete improvement came out of it.
>

Ah, this is my bad. =-( I had searched the archives (I'm not typically
subscribed to this list) and noticed the related patch for GNU/Hurd,
but completely missed that a more active discussion had taken place
within that thread. I have now read that, and have no further
questions.

Thanks!

Kyle Evans