From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:37:30 GMT Subject: Re: Some git performance measurements.. Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Hi, On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Mike Ralphson wrote: > On Dec 7, 2007 1:49 PM, Johannes Schindelin 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