From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 10:59:01 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Improving performance with pthreads in refresh_index(). Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1318325521-23262-1-git-send-email-klinkert@webgods.de> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 8:32 PM, wrote: > Git performs for every file in a repository at least one (with a cold cache) > lstat(). In larger repositories operations like git status take a > long time. In case your local repository is located on a remote server > (e. g. mounted via nfs) it ends up in an *incredible* slow git. This sounds really similar to what Linus did with preload-index.c.. -- Duy