Re: What's cooking in git.git (Oct 2013, #06; Fri, 25)

> On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 6:23 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> * kb/fast-hashmap (2013-10-22) 12 commits
>>  - remove old hash.[ch] implementation
>>  - read-cache.c: fix memory leaks caused by removed cache entries
>>  - name-hash.c: remove cache entries instead of marking them CE_UNHASHED
>>  - name-hash.c: use new hash map implementation for cache entries
>>  - name-hash.c: remove unreferenced directory entries
>>  - name-hash.c: use new hash map implementation for directories
>>  - diffcore-rename.c: use new hash map implementation
>>  - diffcore-rename.c: simplify finding exact renames
>>  - diffcore-rename.c: move code around to prepare for the next patch
>>  - buitin/describe.c: use new hash map implementation
>>  - add a hashtable implementation that supports O(1) removal
>>  - submodule: don't access the .gitmodules cache entry after removing it
>>
>>  Improvements to our hash table to get it to meet the needs of the
>>  msysgit fscache project, with some nice performance improvements.
>>
>>  The preparatory clean-up to submodule from Jens is at the bottom. I
>>  also squashed in a fix-up by Karsten found at $gmane/236468 (please
>>  double-check the result).
>
> jk/pack-bitmap adds khash.h, which from a first glance looks like yet
> another hash table implementation. I was just wondering if kb's new
> hash tables can cover the need of pack-bitmap.c too so we can remove
> khash.h later..