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From: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
To: git discussion list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: remove_duplicates() in builtin/fetch-pack.c is O(N^2)
Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 10:13:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FB9F92D.8000305@alum.mit.edu> (raw)

I just noticed that the remove_duplicates() function in 
builtin/fetch-pack.c is O(N^2) in the number of heads.  Empirically, 
this function takes on the order of 25 seconds to process 100k references.

I know that 100k heads is kindof absurd.  Perhaps handling this many 
heads is unrealistic for other reasons.  But I vaguely recall numbers 
like this being mentioned on the mailing list.

It would be pretty trivial to reduce the work to O(N) by using a hash 
set to keep track of the references that have already been seen.

I don't plan to work on this, but I thought I would point it out in case 
it is causing somebody pain.

Michael

-- 
Michael Haggerty
mhagger@alum.mit.edu
http://softwareswirl.blogspot.com/

             reply	other threads:[~2012-05-21  8:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-21  8:13 Michael Haggerty [this message]
2012-05-21  9:09 ` remove_duplicates() in builtin/fetch-pack.c is O(N^2) Junio C Hamano
2012-05-21  9:42 ` demerphq
2012-05-21 17:45 ` Jeff King
2012-05-21 22:14   ` Jeff King
2012-05-21 22:17     ` [PATCH 1/5] fetch-pack: sort incoming heads Jeff King
2012-05-22 20:08       ` Junio C Hamano
2012-05-22 20:23         ` Jeff King
2012-05-24  6:04           ` Jeff King
2012-05-21 22:17     ` [PATCH 2/5] fetch-pack: avoid quadratic behavior in remove_duplicates Jeff King
2012-05-21 22:19     ` [PATCH 3/5] add sorting infrastructure for list refs Jeff King
2012-05-21 22:19     ` [PATCH 4/5] fetch-pack: sort the list of incoming refs Jeff King
2012-05-21 22:23     ` [PATCH 5/5] fetch-pack: avoid quadratic loop in filter_refs Jeff King
2012-05-22 20:16       ` Junio C Hamano
2012-05-21 23:52     ` remove_duplicates() in builtin/fetch-pack.c is O(N^2) Jeff King
2012-05-22  0:07       ` Jeff King
2012-05-22  3:59       ` Michael Haggerty
2012-05-22  4:11         ` Jeff King
2012-05-22  7:15           ` Michael Haggerty
2012-05-22  7:37             ` Jeff King
2012-05-22 13:28               ` Michael Haggerty
2012-05-22 17:33                 ` Jeff King
2012-05-24 12:05                   ` Michael Haggerty
2012-05-25  0:17     ` Martin Fick
2012-05-25  0:39       ` Jeff King
2012-05-25  0:54         ` Martin Fick
2012-05-25  1:04           ` Jeff King
2012-05-25  1:32             ` Martin Fick
2012-05-25  6:50               ` Jeff King
2012-05-22 12:18   ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-05-22 13:35     ` Michael Haggerty
2012-05-22 17:01     ` Jeff King
2012-05-22 17:35       ` Junio C Hamano
2012-05-22 17:46         ` Jeff King
2012-05-24  4:54         ` Michael Haggerty
2012-05-23  1:20       ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-05-22 16:16   ` Junio C Hamano
2012-05-21 18:15 ` Martin Fick
2012-05-21 19:41   ` Jeff King
2012-05-21 22:08     ` Junio C Hamano
2012-05-21 22:24       ` Jeff King
2012-05-22  5:51     ` Martin Fick
2012-05-22 18:21       ` Jeff King
2012-05-22 22:19         ` Martin Fick
2012-05-22 23:23           ` Junio C Hamano
2012-05-23  0:46             ` Martin Fick

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