From: Linus Torvalds Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 21:13:06 GMT Subject: Re: git-index-pack really does suck.. Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20070403210319.GH27706@spearce.org> On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > > So even with --paranoid (aka what we have now) index-pack still > should be faster than unpack-objects for any sizeable transfer, > and is just as "safe". I agree 100% that index-pack is much much MUCH better than unpack-objects ever was, so .. > If its the missing-object lookup that is expensive, maybe we should > try to optimize that. We do it enough already in other parts of > the code... Well, for all other cases it's really the "object found" case that is worth optimizing for, so I think optimizing for "no object" is actually wrong, unless it also speeds up (or at least doesn't make it worse) the "real" normal case. Linus