Re: [PATCH 2/4] blame: validate and peel the object names on the ignore list

>> Any performance improvement would be welcome.  I haven't looked at
>> the code in a while, but I don't recall any reasons why this wouldn't
>> work.
> 
> Using a commit flag instead of an oidset would only improve
> performance noticeably if the product of the number of suspects and
> ignored commits was huge, I guess.
> 
> I get weird timings for an ignore file containing basically all commits
> (created with "git log --format=%H").  With Git's own repo and rc1:
> 
> Benchmark #1: ./git-blame --ignore-revs-file hashes Makefile
>    Time (mean ± σ):      8.470 s ±  0.049 s    [User: 7.923 s, System: 0.547 s]
>    Range (min … max):    8.434 s …  8.605 s    10 runs
> 
> And with the patch at the bottom:
> 
> Benchmark #1: ./git-blame --ignore-revs-file hashes Makefile
>    Time (mean ± σ):      8.048 s ±  0.061 s    [User: 7.899 s, System: 0.146 s]
>    Range (min … max):    7.987 s …  8.175 s    10 runs
> 
> That looks like a nice speedup, but why for system time alone?  Malloc
> overhead perhaps?

> ---
>   blame.c         |  2 +-
>   blame.h         |  5 +++--
>   builtin/blame.c | 16 ++++++++++++----
>   object.h        |  3 ++-
>   4 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/blame.c b/blame.c
> index 686845b2b4..6e8c8fec9b 100644
> --- a/blame.c
> +++ b/blame.c
> @@ -2487,7 +2487,7 @@ static void pass_blame(struct blame_scoreboard *sb, struct blame_origin *origin,
>   	/*
>   	 * Pass remaining suspects for ignored commits to their parents.
>   	 */
> -	if (oidset_contains(&sb->ignore_list, &commit->object.oid)) {
> +	if (commit->object.flags & BLAME_IGNORE) {
>   		for (i = 0, sg = first_scapegoat(revs, commit, sb->reverse);
>   		     i < num_sg && sg;
>   		     sg = sg->next, i++) {
> diff --git a/blame.h b/blame.h
> index b6bbee4147..d35167e8bd 100644
> --- a/blame.h
> +++ b/blame.h
> @@ -16,6 +16,9 @@
>   #define BLAME_DEFAULT_MOVE_SCORE	20
>   #define BLAME_DEFAULT_COPY_SCORE	40
> 
> +/* Remember to update object flag allocation in object.h */
> +#define BLAME_IGNORE	(1u<<14)
> +
>   struct fingerprint;
> 
>   /*
> @@ -125,8 +128,6 @@ struct blame_scoreboard {
>   	/* linked list of blames */
>   	struct blame_entry *ent;
> 
> -	struct oidset ignore_list;
> -
>   	/* look-up a line in the final buffer */
>   	int num_lines;
>   	int *lineno;
> diff --git a/builtin/blame.c b/builtin/blame.c
> index bb0f29300e..1c6721b5d5 100644
> --- a/builtin/blame.c
> +++ b/builtin/blame.c
> @@ -830,21 +830,29 @@ static void build_ignorelist(struct blame_scoreboard *sb,
>   {
>   	struct string_list_item *i;
>   	struct object_id oid;
> +	const struct object_id *o;
> +	struct oidset_iter iter;
> +	struct oidset ignore_list = OIDSET_INIT;
> 
> -	oidset_init(&sb->ignore_list, 0);
>   	for_each_string_list_item(i, ignore_revs_file_list) {
>   		if (!strcmp(i->string, ""))
> -			oidset_clear(&sb->ignore_list);
> +			oidset_clear(&ignore_list);
>   		else
> -			oidset_parse_file_carefully(&sb->ignore_list, i->string,
> +			oidset_parse_file_carefully(&ignore_list, i->string,
>   						    peel_to_commit_oid, sb);
>   	}
>   	for_each_string_list_item(i, ignore_rev_list) {
>   		if (get_oid_committish(i->string, &oid) ||
>   		    peel_to_commit_oid(&oid, sb))
>   			die(_("cannot find revision %s to ignore"), i->string);
> -		oidset_insert(&sb->ignore_list, &oid);
> +		oidset_insert(&ignore_list, &oid);
>   	}
> +	oidset_iter_init(&ignore_list, &iter);
> +	while ((o = oidset_iter_next(&iter))) {
> +		struct commit *commit = lookup_commit(sb->repo, o);
> +		commit->object.flags |= BLAME_IGNORE;
> +	}
> +	oidset_clear(&ignore_list);
>   }
> 
>   int cmd_blame(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
> diff --git a/object.h b/object.h
> index 20b18805f0..6818c9296b 100644
> --- a/object.h
> +++ b/object.h
> @@ -64,7 +64,8 @@ struct object_array {
>    * negotiator/default.c:       2--5
>    * walker.c:                 0-2
>    * upload-pack.c:                4       11-----14  16-----19
> - * builtin/blame.c:                        12-13
> + * blame.c:                                     14
> + * builtin/blame.c:                        12---14
>    * bisect.c:                                        16
>    * bundle.c:                                        16
>    * http-push.c:                          11-----14
> --
> 2.28.0
>