From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:51:31 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] refs.c: add a function to sort a ref list, rather then sorting on add
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704171350000.5473@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704172114040.8164@beast.quantumfyre.co.uk>



On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Julian Phillips wrote:
> 
> It's the tag auto-following code, I'm calling read_ref to see if I already
> have that tag - and it appears that doing that a few thousand times takes a
> while.

Heh. I think we should probably call read_refs() just once to read them 
all (when most of them are packed, that's cheap), and then after that, 
have some way to just check for a match on the refs we have cached.

		Linus