Re: USE_SHA1DC is broken in pu
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
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> Side note: I also have a feeling that any operation that cares about
> non-object sha1 performance is probably ripe for other, bigger
> optimizations. If you update 300MB worth of index entries, then the
> cost of computing a checksum over it isn't a big deal. But if you have
> a 300MB index file and you update one entry (or you just want to read
> one entry), maybe we ought to consider solutions that don't involve
> the whole 300MB in the first place. I know that's a much harder change
> because it may involve new on-disk formats. But it seems like that's
> the right long-term path forward.