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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Cc: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Why Git is so fast
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:28:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200904301728.06989.jnareb@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b4087cc50904300556s359c91dfu444fa40ea85bd66e@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Michael Witten wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 07:17, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:

> > I hope that JGit developers can
> > tell us whether using higher level language affects performance, how
> > much, and what features of higher-level language are causing decrease
> > in performance.
> 
> Java is definitely higher than C, but you can do some pretty low-level
> operations on bits and bytes and the like, not to mention the presence
> of a JIT.
> 
> My point: I don't think that Java can tell us anything special in this regard.

Let's rephrase question a bit then: what low-level operation were needed
for good performance in JGit? 

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-30 15:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-27  8:55 Eric Sink's blog - notes on git, dscms and a "whole product" approach Martin Langhoff
2009-04-28 11:24 ` Cross-Platform Version Control (was: Eric Sink's blog - notes on git, dscms and a "whole product" approach) Jakub Narebski
2009-04-28 21:00   ` Robin Rosenberg
2009-04-29  6:55   ` Martin Langhoff
2009-04-29  7:21     ` Jeff King
2009-04-29 20:05       ` Markus Heidelberg
2009-04-29  7:52     ` Cross-Platform Version Control Jakub Narebski
2009-04-29  8:25       ` Martin Langhoff
2009-04-28 18:16 ` Eric Sink's blog - notes on git, dscms and a "whole product" approach Jakub Narebski
2009-04-29  7:54   ` Sitaram Chamarty
2009-04-30 12:17   ` Why Git is so fast (was: Re: Eric Sink's blog - notes on git, dscms and a "whole product" approach) Jakub Narebski
2009-04-30 12:56     ` Michael Witten
2009-04-30 15:28       ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2009-04-30 18:52         ` Why Git is so fast Shawn O. Pearce
2009-04-30 20:36           ` Kjetil Barvik
2009-04-30 20:40             ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-04-30 21:36               ` Kjetil Barvik
2009-05-01  0:23                 ` Steven Noonan
2009-05-01  1:25                   ` James Pickens
2009-05-01  9:19                   ` Kjetil Barvik
2009-05-01  9:34                     ` Mike Hommey
2009-05-01  9:42                       ` Kjetil Barvik
2009-05-01 17:42                 ` Tony Finch
2009-05-01  5:24             ` Dmitry Potapov
2009-05-01  9:42               ` Mike Hommey
2009-05-01 10:46                 ` Dmitry Potapov
2009-04-30 18:43       ` Why Git is so fast (was: Re: Eric Sink's blog - notes on git, dscms and a "whole product" approach) Shawn O. Pearce
2009-04-30 14:22     ` Jeff King
2009-05-01 18:43       ` Linus Torvalds
2009-05-01 19:08         ` Jeff King
2009-05-01 19:13           ` david
2009-05-01 19:32             ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-05-01 21:17           ` Daniel Barkalow
2009-05-01 21:37           ` Linus Torvalds
2009-05-01 22:11             ` david
2009-04-30 18:56     ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-04-30 19:16       ` Alex Riesen
2009-05-04  8:01         ` Why Git is so fast Andreas Ericsson
2009-04-30 19:33       ` Jakub Narebski

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