From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:42:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Suggested for PU: revision caching system to significantly speed up packing/walking
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0908070036450.16073@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <c77435a80908061330h2461012at8b877970cab4906b@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, Nick Edelen wrote:

> Hrmm, I just realized that it dosn't actually cache paths/names...
> This obviously has no bearing on its use in packing, but I should
> either add that in or restrict usage in non-packing-related walks.
> Weird how things like that escape you.

Actually it is really the packing related walk that would benefit the 
most from this work.  The "counting objects" phase of a clone may take 
quite a while with some repositories.  Most other operations don't care 
as much because the rev walk is done incrementally whereas the packing 
operation needs to perform it all up front.


Nicolas