Re: [PATCH v1 00/10] cat-file speedups

> This continues the work of Jeff King and my initial work to
> speed up cat-file --batch(-contents)? users in
> https://lore.kernel.org/git/20240621062915.GA2105230@coredump.intra.peff.net/T/
> 
> There's more speedups I'm working on, but this series touches
> on the work Jeff and I have already published.
> 
> I've started putting some Perl5 + Inline::C benchmarks with
> several knobs up at: git clone https://80x24.org/misc-git-benchmarks.git
> 
> I've found it necessary to use schedtool(1) on Linux to pin all
> processes to a single CPU on multicore systems.
> 
> Some patches make more sense for largish objects, some for
> smaller objects.  Small objects (several KB) were my main focus,
> but I figure 5/10 could help with some pathological big cases
> and also open the door to expanding the use of caching down the
> line.
> 
> 10/10 actually ended up being more significant than I originally
> anticipated for repeat lookups of the same objects (common for
> web frontends getting hammered).
> 
> Jeff: I started writing commit messages for your patches (1 and
> 2), but there's probably better explanations you could do :>