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Re: [PATCH v4 0/9] Reduce index load time

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Nov 16, 2015, 21:51 UTC
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Hi Duy,
On Sun, 1 Nov 2015, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote:
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> This is the rebased version since last time [1] with
> s/free_index_shm/release_index_shm/ as suggested by David Turner. It
> introduces a daemon that can cache index data in memory so that
> subsequent git processes can avoid reading (and more importantly,
> verifying) the index from disk. Together with split-index it should
> keep index I/O cost down to minimum. The series can also be found at
> [2].
> 
> One of the factors that affected my design was Windows support. We
> now have Dscho back, he can evaluate my approach for Windows.
You flatter me! ;-)

Seriously again, this patch series comes at a very good time: I will have a closer look soon (sorry about being so vague, but I am once again a little bit short on time/brain cycles).

Thanks! Dscho

Previous: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
Message 12 of 12 in “Reduce index load time”
  1. 0/9 Reduce index load timeNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Nov 1, 2015
  2. 1/9 trace.c: add GIT_TRACE_PACK_STATS for pack usage statisticsNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Nov 1, 2015
  3. 2/9 read-cache.c: fix constness of verify_hdr()Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Nov 1, 2015
  4. 3/9 read-cache: allow to keep mmap'd memory after readingNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Nov 1, 2015
  5. 4/9 index-helper: new daemon for caching index and related stuffNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Nov 1, 2015
  6. David TurnerNov 2, 2015
  7. 5/9 trace.c: add GIT_TRACE_INDEX_STATS for index statisticsNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Nov 1, 2015
  8. 6/9 index-helper: add --strictNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Nov 1, 2015
  9. 7/9 daemonize(): set a flag before exiting the main processNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Nov 1, 2015
  10. 8/9 index-helper: add --detachNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Nov 1, 2015
  11. 9/9 index-helper: add Windows supportNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Nov 1, 2015
  12. Johannes SchindelinNov 16, 2015

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