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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: Performance issue of 'git branch'
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:59:17 -0700
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Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 02:21:20PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > I wonder if there is some way to only load the crazy curl stuff when we 
> > actually want open a http: connection.
> 
> Well, we could use dlopen(), but I'm not sure that qualifies as a
> _sane_ solution --- especially given that there are approximately 15
> interfaces used by git, that we'd have to resolve using dlsym().

Yea, that's not sane.

Probably the better approach is to have git fetch and git push be a
different binary from main git, so we only pay the libcurl loading
overheads when we hit transport.

-- 
Shawn.