From: Linus Torvalds Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 21:02:19 GMT Subject: Re: Performance issue of 'git branch' Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20090725203130.GB1640@glandium.org> On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 09:57:39PM +0300, Timo Hirvonen wrote: > > Linus Torvalds 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