From: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to unpack recent objects?
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:06:59 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D0A8D83.9080705@cfl.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1012161616170.10437@xanadu.home>
On 12/16/2010 4:19 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> What makes you think that unpacking them will actually make the access
> to them faster? Instead, you should consider _repacking_ them,
> ultimately using the --aggressive parameter with the gc command, if you
> want faster accesses.
Because decompressing and undeltifying the objects in the pack file
takes a fair amount of cpu time. It seems a waste to do this for the
same set of objects repeatedly rather than just keeping them loose.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-16 22:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-16 20:33 How to unpack recent objects? Phillip Susi
2010-12-16 20:40 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-12-16 21:19 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-12-16 22:06 ` Phillip Susi [this message]
2010-12-16 22:18 ` Jakub Narebski
2010-12-16 23:12 ` Nicolas Pitre
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