From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:55:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] autodetect number of CPUs by default when using threads
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0812111954450.14328@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <7v63lqcptn.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:
> 
> > I've spent quite a while wondering why repacking in one repo was faster 
> > than repacking in a clone of that repo on the same machine.  So let's 
> > display how many threads are actually used.
> >
> > We have comprehensive test in Makefile to determine if threads are 
> > available, just to not use them by default.  I think that code has 
> > proven itself for long enough now not to let people benefit from it.
> 
> Hmm, it does appear that distros compile with THREADED_DELTA_SEARCH turned
> on (I only checked Fedora and Debian), and I tend to agree with "long
> enough" but "proven itself" feels bit too strong a statement.
> 
> I think defaulting to autodetect is a good change.  I do not like to add
> new output to stderr deep in -rc, though.
> 
> Can we park this in 'next' and move it to 'master' after 1.6.1?

Sure.  This is probably best for next.


Nicolas