From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 21:28:30 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] attr: convert to new threadsafe API
Message-ID: <xmqqh98h2r5t.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20161011235951.8358-1-sbeller@google.com>

Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:

> This version adds the actual thread safety,
> that is promised in the documentation, however it doesn't add any optimization,
> i.e. it's a single global lock. But as we do not expect contention, that is fine.

Because we have to start _somewhere_, I agree it is a good approach
to first try the simplest implementation and then optimize later,
but is it an agreed consensus that we do not expect contention?