Re: [PATCH 3/3] blame: use changed-path Bloom filters

> "Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:
> > The lack of improvement for the MAINTAINERS file and the relatively
> > modest improvement for the other examples can be easily explained.
> > The blame machinery needs to compute line-level diffs to determine
> > which lines were changed by each commit. That makes up a large
> > proportion of the computation time, and this change does not
> > attempt to improve on that section of the algorithm. The
> > MAINTAINERS file is large and changed often, so it takes time to
> > determine which lines were updated by which commit. In contrast,
> > the code files are much smaller, and it takes longer to comute
> > the line-by-line diff for a single patch on the Linux mailing
> > lists.