Re: [GSoC] Improving parallelism

From: Felipe Tanus <fotanus@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 18, 2012, 04:58 UTC
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On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 1:42 AM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 5:18 AM, Felipe Tanus <fotanus@gmail.com> wrote:
>>  but if you know already other
>> commands that might benefit from this parallelism, please tell me in
>> order for me to include in my proposal.
>
> "git blame" (I think, I don't use this command much) and "git fsck".
> "git index-pack" is getting multithread support soon (you can search
> mail archive), but even then I think there's still room for further
> improvements (i.e. parallelize the hashing code in the first phase of
> checking the pack).
>
> If that's not enough, you may want to investigate whether multithread
> support can speed up "git rev-list --objects --all" without adding too
> much complexity. Speeding up this can also be achieved by implementing
> pack format version 4 (current version is 3). But that's a bigger work
> and may need more time to land.
> --
> Duy

Hi Duy,

Thanks for the answer, was very helpful. I'll check this commands and see what can I complete in time to add into the proposal.

Regards,

-- 
Felipe de Oliveira Tanus
E-mail: fotanus@gmail.com
Site: http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/~fotanus/
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