From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 10:26:27 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] New hash table implementation
Message-ID: <CACsJy8BQDwHJiDyaOfcmOSg+=jpj-NyCTtw1vLwppSwYxF5hhA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20130926101648.GD6615@paksenarrion.iveqy.com>

On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 5:16 PM, Fredrik Gustafsson <iveqy@iveqy.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 11:50:16AM +0200, Karsten Blees wrote:
>> Tests can be reproduced with 'time echo "perfhash[map] <method> 1000" | ./test-hashmap', see test-hashmap.c for definition of method flags.
>
> So I'm still curious about the actual performance improvements for git.
> I runned git describe on the linux kernel with both the old hashmap and
> this new one:
>
> ...
>
> I can't see any improvements at all here. What do I miss? Am I running
> git describe in the wrong way? Does linux.git have too few tags to be
> important?

I wonder if it makes any difference if there are a lot more refs. I
hear gerrit creates a lot but don't know how many. linux-2.6 has ~350
refs. How about increasing the number of refs to 3500 refs?
-- 
Duy