Re: MinGW port usable

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 30, 2007, 15:38 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0701301635050.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20070130151803.GA25779@spearce.org>

Hi,

On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > On the git repository, using MinGW:
> > Using cygwin:
> > 
> > IOW MinGW wins hands down with an average 0.33s vs cygwin with an average 
> > 0.75s. (I am fairly certain that you must not trust sys times.)
> 
> Just curious, but were these tests run with mmap(), or NO_MMAP?

Both with NO_MMAP=YesPlease.

> Clearly, for a packed repository most of the overhead should be in 
> getting to the pack data itself (as everything else is pure userspace).

Right. That's why I did the test on the _same_ repository. (Not just both git repositories, but in the same path on the same machine.)

That said, I find the numbers quite convincing. On a (much weaker equipped) Linux bux, it takes 0.65s and 1.2s, respectively.

Ciao, Dscho