Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] Avoid spawning gzip in git archive

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jul 1, 2022, 17:47 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqy1xc913j.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <Yr8gZT6dbCpzaR9n@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> That will spend quite a lot of time doing hash-lookups for each tree
> entry. A better raw zlib test might be:
>
>   git cat-file --batch --batch-all-objects --unordered >/dev/null
>
> which will just dump each object, and should mostly be zlib and delta
> reconstruction (the --unordered is important to hit the deltas in the
> right order).

;-)

I like --unordered has the meaning "use the order Git likes" (which is probably the packfile offset order, which we optimize for minimizing seek during delta reconstruction).

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