# GSoC Improving parallelism in various commands 2 messages from 2012-03-24 to 2012-03-25. Participants: John Gamboa, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/30054 ## John Gamboa, 2012-03-24 21:06 Subject: GSoC Improving parallelism in various commands Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAM6-U1QwaMiSHcRvzgwQVYfAU7%3Dv9gxiAaRrcVBmPpWw2wic4w%40mail.gmail.com ``` Hello... I'm a Computer Science student and, well, as the topic of this e-mail suggests, I'm planning to submit a project to GSoC on git. I went into the ideas page and found the Git Project Ideas for GSoC page, where I found this idea about improving parallelism in some git commands. I saw that the idea in the Git Ideas page is very well explained, but, well, I never touched the Git code and I really don't know how difficult it would be, and how many commands are there to be "paralelized". Anyway, I really like parallelism and I found this a very good oportunity to improve my knowledge  about it (although I can say I've already played/worked enough to feel confortable on this). Is there any place where I could find more information on what commands are already parallel? And do anyone have any idea on how many commands could benefit from parallelism? As I said, I never touched the Git code. Would someone recommend me to take a look at some place at first? Thanks, in advance... (I tried to send this same e-mail before with some links to the ideas page, but it seems the it was considered a spam and thus it didn't reach its destination. Sorry) -- John Gamboa ``` ## Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy, 2012-03-25 03:10 Subject: Re: GSoC Improving parallelism in various commands Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CACsJy8CL1foxWFsLiThHkF5yarTqpFkYTsfbHFxvEYq9BWD1_Q%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 4:06 AM, John Gamboa wrote: > Is there any place where I could find more information on what > commands are already parallel? pack-objects, grep, index reading and (soon) index-pack. > And do anyone have any idea on how many > commands could benefit from parallelism? As I said, I never touched > the Git code. Would someone recommend me to take a look at some place > at first? See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/193352/focus=193574. I'd recommend Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt and sha1_file.c (start with read_sha1_file) -- Duy ```