Re: Performance issue of 'git branch'

> On 07/25/2009 01:59 AM, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> > Theodore Tso<tytso@mit.edu>  wrote:
> >    
> > > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 02:21:20PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > >      
> > > > I wonder if there is some way to only load the crazy curl stuff when we
> > > > actually want open a http: connection.
> > > >        
> > > Well, we could use dlopen(), but I'm not sure that qualifies as a
> > > _sane_ solution --- especially given that there are approximately 15
> > > interfaces used by git, that we'd have to resolve using dlsym().
> > >      
> >
> > Yea, that's not sane.
> >
> > Probably the better approach is to have git fetch and git push be a
> > different binary from main git, so we only pay the libcurl loading
> > overheads when we hit transport.
> >    
> 
> Or make the transports shared libraries, and use dlopen() to open the
> transport and dlsym() to resolve the struct transport object exported by the
> library.