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Subject: Re: Performance issue of 'git branch'
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:28:08 -0700
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Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>,
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"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

> 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.

Even though that still will hurt people who do not use http, I think it
would be a right approach (in the sense that it should not be too painful
and with a reasonable gain for local-only operations).