Re: Performance issue of 'git branch'

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Jul 25, 2009, 21:02 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0907251353410.3960@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <20090725203130.GB1640@glandium.org>

On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, Mike Hommey wrote:

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> On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 09:57:39PM +0300, Timo Hirvonen wrote:
> > Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > So curl really must die. It may not matter for the expensive operations, 
> > > but a lot of scripting is about running all those "cheap" things that just 
> > > add up over time.
> > 
> > SELinux is the problem, not curl.
> 
> I think it's NSS, the problem, not SELinux. Linus's libcurl is built
> against NSS, which is the default on Fedora.

Well, it kind of doesn't matter. The fact is, libcurl is a bloated monster, and adds zero to 99% of what git people do.

The fact that apparently sometimes it's less bloated than other times doesn't really change anything fundamental, does it?

			Linus