RE: libcurl dependency for implementing RFC3161 timestamps

["Randall S. Becker" <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>]

On March 9, 2016 6:41 AM, Duy Nguyen wrote:
> To: Anton Wuerfel <anton.wuerfel@fau.de>
> Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>; i4passt@cs.fau.de;
> phillip.raffeck@fau.de
> Subject: Re: libcurl dependency for implementing RFC3161 timestamps
> 
> On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 6:24 PM, Anton Wuerfel <anton.wuerfel@fau.de>
> wrote:
> > -As git tag is a builtin part of the main git executable, introduce a
> > libcurl dependency for the main executable (maybe not best-practice).
> 
> libcurl was part of the main executable and then split out because it
> increased startup time [1]. I don't know if it's still true nowadays, maybe you
> should do a simple test before deciding to go that way.

The NSE NonStop port observed that at 2.7.3 (admittedly old) that libcurl was not used for local operations including status, log, reset, etc., but was needed for push, pull, fetch (a.k.a. network) operations. The libcurl.so is loaded statically at start-up for any components needing the latter operations. Added it for local processing is not going to help performance :(, which is quite bad enough on our platform.

Sincerely,
Randall

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