From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pieter de Bie <pdebie@ai.rug.nl>,
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Git performance on OS X
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:22:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85prskv6l8.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0804191727270.2779@woody.linux-foundation.org> (Linus Torvalds's message of "Sat, 19 Apr 2008 17:31:41 -0700 (PDT)")
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> Taking three seconds for the warm-cache case for just 50,000 files is
> ludicrous. That's about an order-and-a-half slower than what I see.
>
> Maybe my CPU is faster too (2.66GHz Core 2), but the thing is, Linux
> really does tend to outperform others at a lot of these kinds of loads.
> System calls are fast to begin with, and the Linux directory cache kicks
> ass, if I do say so myself.
>
> OS X doth suck.
Oh, but OS X does utf8 unification and case folding: so it is actually
doing quite a bit more than Linux.
Of course, doing that sucks for even more reasons, but it is not an
accident. It is intentional brain damage.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-20 16:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-19 19:28 Git performance on OS X Pieter de Bie
2008-04-19 21:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-19 21:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-19 22:08 ` Pieter de Bie
2008-04-20 16:17 ` David Kastrup
2008-04-19 21:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-19 22:00 ` Pieter de Bie
2008-04-19 22:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-20 4:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-04-20 11:13 ` [PATCH 01/02/RFC] implement a stat cache Luciano Rocha
2008-04-20 11:15 ` [PATCH 02/02/RFC] make use of the " Luciano Rocha
2008-04-20 11:18 ` [PATCH 01/02/RFC] implement a " Luciano Rocha
2008-04-20 16:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-20 22:04 ` Luciano Rocha
2008-04-20 22:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-20 23:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-21 0:53 ` Dmitry Potapov
2008-04-21 8:41 ` Johan Herland
2008-04-21 1:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-04-21 3:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-21 3:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-21 18:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-04-21 19:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-21 20:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-04-21 10:04 ` David Kastrup
2008-04-19 22:44 ` Git performance on OS X Jakub Narebski
2008-04-19 22:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-19 22:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-19 23:10 ` Pieter de Bie
2008-04-19 23:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-19 23:35 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2008-04-19 23:57 ` Pieter de Bie
2008-04-20 0:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-20 0:21 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2008-04-19 23:56 ` Pieter de Bie
2008-04-20 0:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-20 1:23 ` Dmitry Potapov
2008-04-20 16:22 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2008-04-19 23:04 ` Linus Torvalds
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