Re: Some git performance measurements..
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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
- Date
- Dec 7, 2007, 18:37 UTC
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- <Pine.LNX.4.64.0712071816100.27959@racer.site>
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Hi,
On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Mike Ralphson wrote:
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> On Dec 7, 2007 1:49 PM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote: > > On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Mike Ralphson wrote: > > > > > I benchmarked 3 alternative qsorts, qsortG [2] was the fastest on my > > > system but has funky licensing, the NetBSD qsort was middle-range > > > and the glibc one the slowest of the three (but that could be due to > > > it being tuned for a "Sun 4/260"). All of them show over 100x speed > > > improvements on a git-status of my main repo (104s -> ~0.7s) > > > > How is "You may use it in anything you like;" funky licensing? It is > > effectively public domain. > > I did ask what the git licensing policy was (GPL2 or GPL2-compatible) > but got no response. The author's wishes state: > > * This code may be reproduced freely provided > [long list]
Okay, sorry, I did not bother reading further when I read "You may use it in anything you like;".
But if the author did not respond, it might be a better idea to just reimplement it.
Ciao, Dscho