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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] Hash tags by commit SHA1 in git-describe.
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 18:19:37 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070114231937.GF10888@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vr6txh278.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > On Sat, 13 Jan 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> >
> >> If a project has a very large number of tags then git-describe
> >> will spend a good part of its time looping over the tags testing
> >> them one at a time to determine if it matches a given commit.
> >
> > Why not just use object_refs? This also obviates the need for your patch 
> > 3/4, since you no longer have buckets to search binarily. Plus, it uses a 
> > hash map, which already turned out to beat (in terms of performance) the 
> > hell out of bucketed lists in git history.
> 
> Very good point.

OK. I didn't realize we had a better system already implemented.
Thanks for pointing it out.

I'll work up a patch to replace the crude hash/list arrangement
with something based on object_refs instead.

-- 
Shawn.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-15 17:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <8e29bab8b4b9f53cbdc85e6e783bf3b5d3787f0f.1168727248.git.spearce@spearce.org>
2007-01-13 22:28 ` [PATCH 2/4] Hash tags by commit SHA1 in git-describe Shawn O. Pearce
2007-01-14 13:01   ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-14 18:51     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-14 23:19       ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
2007-01-13 22:29 ` [PATCH 3/4] Use binary searching on large buckets " Shawn O. Pearce
2007-01-14 19:11   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-14 23:07     ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-01-13 22:30 ` [PATCH 4/4] Improve git-describe performance by reducing revision listing Shawn O. Pearce

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