Re: [PATCH 00/30] [RFC] Path-walk API and applications

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 11, 2024, 21:32 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq8qvx6fmy.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <pull.1786.git.1725935335.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

"Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:

> One obvious issue with this current implementation is that it inlines much
> of the delta calculation into the "Enumerate objects" phase, and thus makes
> it single-threaded.

Naïvely, traversal of history partitioned by paths smells embarrassingly parallelizable; it may need some post processing to make sure that the same object only appears once, though, and the devil probably is in the details ;-).

Thanks for an enjoyable cover letter that pulls readers in.

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