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Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

>> I think that right now it would be a quite daunting task to start
>> replacing parts of git.git with libgit2. The architecture changes
>> required would be quite significant, because of the way that git.git
>> and libgit2 are designed (Unix-only, non-reentrant/cross-platform,
>> reentrant)

How big a performance penalty does libgit2 have to pay to depart from many
"we run once and let exit take care of cleaning up after us" patterns used
in git.git primarily in order to avoid the housekeeping cost?