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From: "René Scharfe" <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	git@vger.kernel.org,
	Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: Why is --pretty=format: so slow?
Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 11:31:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <472D9F6E.8070609@lsrfire.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vmytuvdvq.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano schrieb:
> Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> writes:
> 
>> Strace seems to indicate that git log is doing at least one sequence
>> of open, fstat64, fcntl64, getdents64 and close for each line of
>> output in the --pretty=format: cases, but not in the other cases.
> 
> I bet that is coming from doing find_unique_abbrev() to fill
> fields %h, %t and %p, even when the output format does not ask
> for any of them.
> 
> Dscho, can we stop calling find_unique_abbrev() unconditionally
> before being asked?

Incidentally, I'm finishing a patch series to add git-describe style
placeholders.  It needs such an optimization even more badly (and has
it).  Speeding up other slow placeholder expansions falls out quite
naturally.  Please wait just a few minutes..

René

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-04 10:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-04  3:42 Why is --pretty=format: so slow? Paul Mackerras
2007-11-04  4:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-04 10:31   ` René Scharfe [this message]
2007-11-04 11:48     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-04 13:53       ` René Scharfe

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