From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:15:26 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Avoid running lstat(2) on the same cache entry. Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <07FDB6ED-EBE0-4F66-9167-6A0F8AD58E2B@zib.de> Hi, On Sun, 20 Jan 2008, Steffen Prohaska wrote: > On Jan 20, 2008, at 2:48 AM, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > > I bet you'll see a much bigger performance improvement from this on > > > Windows in particular. > > > > I bet so, too. Traditionally, filesystem calls are painfully slow on > > Windows. > > > > But I cannot test before Monday, so I would not be mad if somebody > > else could perform some tests on Windows. > > Has someone collected the whole series on a topic branch? I did not > follow the discussion closely and apparently more than Linus' patch is > needed. I couldn't immediately figure out which of the patches from the > thread should be applied in what order. AFAICT Linus' patch relies on Junio's lstat() patch that was the OP in this thread. FWIW I applied both patches to current "master" and pushed to the "lstat" branch of http://repo.or.cz/w/git/dscho.git Hth, Dscho