From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Phil Hord <phil.hord@gmail.com>
Cc: peff@peff.net, git@vger.kernel.org,
Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] fetch --prune performance problem
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2025 15:43:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqtt3n1v27.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250702011214.2835529-2-phil.hord@gmail.com> (Phil Hord's message of "Tue, 1 Jul 2025 18:12:12 -0700")
Phil Hord <phil.hord@gmail.com> writes:
> From: Phil Hord <phil.hord@gmail.com>
>
> `git fetch --prune` runs in O(N^2) time normally. This happens because the code
> iterates over each ref to be pruned to display its status. In a repo with
> 174,000 refs, where I was pruning 15,000 refs, the current code made 2.6 billion
> calls to strcmp and consumed 470 seconds of CPU. After this change, the same
> operation completes in under 1 second.
> ...
> V3 forgot to include the first commit in the series (I forgot it grew).
> So here's V4.
>
> Phil Hord (3):
> fetch-prune: optimize dangling-ref reporting
> refs: remove old refs_warn_dangling_symref
> clean up interface for refs_warn_dangling_symrefs
It seems that the thread has gone quiet. What's the status of this
topic?
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-07-07 22:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-07-02 1:12 [PATCH v4 0/3] fetch --prune performance problem Phil Hord
2025-07-02 1:12 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] fetch-prune: optimize dangling-ref reporting Phil Hord
2025-07-02 1:12 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] refs: remove old refs_warn_dangling_symref Phil Hord
2025-07-02 1:12 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] clean up interface for refs_warn_dangling_symrefs Phil Hord
2025-07-08 1:35 ` Jeff King
2025-07-07 22:43 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2025-07-08 1:00 ` [PATCH v4 0/3] fetch --prune performance problem Phil Hord
2025-07-08 1:36 ` Jeff King
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