From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:25:08 GMT
Subject: Re: Git is not scalable with too many refs/*
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On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> wrote:
> Heya,
>
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 11:01, Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk> wrote:
>> It has to be hot-cache, otherwise time taken to read the refs from disk will
>> mean that it is always slow.  On my Mac it seems to _always_ be slow reading
>> the refs from disk, so even the "fast" case still takes ~17m.
>
> Ah, that seems unfortunate. Not sure how to test it then.

If you care about performance, a perf test suite could be made,
perhaps as a separate project. The output would be charts or
spreadsheets, that interesting parties can look at and point out
regressions. We may start with a set of common used operations.
-- 
Duy