From: Stefan Zager <szager@chromium.org>
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 18:39:22 GMT
Subject: Re: Make the git codebase thread-safe
Message-ID: <CAHOQ7J9ceOLe9CHbM-LjeSCkQpBihu9UA0V_-7zcRM3GD-_pvA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <vpqtxc49o60.fsf@anie.imag.fr>

On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 10:33 AM, Matthieu Moy
<Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:
> Stefan Zager <szager@chromium.org> writes:
>
>> I'm optimistic that parallelizing the stat calls will yield a further
>> improvement.
>
> It has already been mentionned in the thread, but in case you overlooked
> it: did you look at core.preloadindex? It seems at least very close to
> what you want.

Ah yes, sorry, I overlooked that.  We have indeed turned on
core.preloadindex, and it does indeed speed up status.  That speedup
is reflected in my previous comments about our observations working
with chromium and blink.

Stefan