Re: kernel.org and GIT tree rebuilding

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Jun 29, 2005, 05:54 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0506282252001.14331@ppc970.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0506282243180.19755@ppc970.osdl.org>

On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > 
> > Of course by the time I sent the above you already rewrote the ting to 
> > be streamable.
> 
> And by the time you sent me a new version, I'd already taken part of your 
> old one by hand ;)

Btw, I have the size/type bits reversed from your setup, but please don't change that, since that would be yet another incompatible pack format change, and I'd like to calm things down.

Also, I notice that you decode the sizes really strangely: you have a "while() { }" loop and two separate loads. It's much nicer to do it with a "do { } while()" loop and a single load, since not only is it less code, a do-while loop compiles to better code than a while() loop (unless the compiler is crazy, which it sometimes is).

		Linus