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Re: GSoC 2008 - Mentors Wanted!

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Mar 5, 2008, 16:37 UTC
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Hi,
On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Noel Grandin wrote:
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> Imran M Yousuf wrote:
> > To start with I was actually thinking of JNI + "exec from C". So later
> > when libification is completed we can replace the execs with call to
> > the libs directly instead. Is this a viable fourth option (sorry I
> > forgot to mention it the first time around)?
> >
> >   
> 
> This is probably a good idea. JGIT is always going to be 2 steps behind
> the native GIT code when comes to accessing on-disk structures.

Well, if you go the JNI route, you will always be platform dependent. IMO this is one of the lesser intelligent things to do when relying on Java.

> This is also how the subversion plugin for the Eclipse IDE worked in the 
> beginning and the performance seemed to be acceptable (to me).

Git is much faster than subversion, so you will feel the overhead of fork()ing, especially on Windows.

Ciao, Dscho

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Message 13 of 24 in “GSoC 2008 - Mentors Wanted!”
  1. Shawn O. PearceMar 4, 2008
  2. Matthieu MoyMar 4, 2008
  3. Shawn O. PearceMar 5, 2008
  4. Jakub NarebskiMar 4, 2008
  5. Carlos RicaMar 4, 2008
  6. Carlos RicaMar 4, 2008
  7. Shawn O. PearceMar 5, 2008
  8. Imran M YousufMar 5, 2008
  9. Shawn O. PearceMar 5, 2008
  10. Imran M YousufMar 5, 2008
  11. Imran M YousufMar 5, 2008
  12. Noel GrandinMar 5, 2008
  13. Johannes SchindelinMar 5, 2008
  14. Shawn O. PearceMar 6, 2008
  15. Robin RosenbergMar 5, 2008
  16. Shawn O. PearceMar 6, 2008
  17. Imran M YousufMar 6, 2008
  18. Johannes SchindelinMar 6, 2008
  19. Robin RosenbergMar 6, 2008
  20. Imran M YousufMar 6, 2008
  21. Robin RosenbergMar 6, 2008
  22. Christian CouderMar 6, 2008
  23. Christian CouderMar 6, 2008
  24. Shawn O. PearceMar 6, 2008

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