Re: [GSoC] My project blog

From: Matheus Tavares Bernardino <matheus.bernardino@usp.br>
Date: Aug 20, 2019, 22:41 UTC
Message-ID: <CAHd-oW6j1-XuPA8XcwmBKhuAeGMEB23NMd1h1KDmn_Z+VJpu1w@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 9:16 AM Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hi Matheus,
>
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 1:28 PM Olga Telezhnaya
> <olyatelezhnaya@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > вт, 20 авг. 2019 г. в 07:59, Matheus Tavares Bernardino
> > <matheus.bernardino@usp.br>:
> > >
> > > I just posted the penultimate report on my project:
> > > https://matheustavares.gitlab.io/posts/going-for-a-too-big-step This
> > > week I’ve been working on a v2 of threaded git-grep w/ parallel
> > > inflation, to allow threads when grepping submodules. I also tried
> > > some more optimizations along the way.
> >
> > Thank you for great blog post! You have done so many things, it is impressive.
>
> Yeah, great blog post again!

Thank you both for the always encouraging comments :)

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> > I absolutely agree with your plans to structure the job and split it
> > to smaller pieces, it should definitely help. Moreover, if you want,
> > you can make something like a documentation and delegate some parts.
>
> I also agree with the above. I think it would be really nice for
> example if we could have something in Documentation/technical/
> describing how multi-threading in `git grep` works and how it could be
> improved. (You can of course copy paste from your blog.)

Hm, good idea! I would have to revisit the important points and better formulate them, but that could hopefully help in future optimizations to git-grep.

> About static function-scope variables I wonder if we could have one
> day some .h and .c files with only thread safe functions in them.

Yes, that would probably require quite some work but would definitely be very helpful!

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> > I hope you enjoyed this summer :) Thank you for your readiness to
> > continue contributing after GSoC. It is not mandatory, you do not have
> > to finish the project, but if you want - all the community will be so
> > glad to see you as the contributor.
>
> Thank you for your work and for considering continuing after the GSoC,

Thank you both, again. It's been a great summer of code! (although it's winter here haha) I do hope to finish the project and keep contributing with whatever I can :)

Best, Matheus