From: Duy Nguyen Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2015 07:59:16 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] path: optimize common dir checking Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1439416645-19173-2-git-send-email-dturner@twopensource.com> On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 4:57 AM, David Turner wrote: > Instead of a linear search over common_list to check whether > a path is common, use a trie. The trie search operates on > path prefixes, and handles excludes. Just be careful that the given key from git_path is not normalized. I think you assume it is in the code, but I haven't read carefully. We could of course optimize for the good case: assume normalized and search, then fall back to explicit normalizing and search again. -- Duy