Re: kernel.org mirroring (Re: [GIT PULL] MMC update)

["Lars Hjemli" <lh@elementstorage.no>]

On 12/8/06, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > I could write a simple C caching thing that just hashes the CGI arguments
> > and uses a hash to create a cache (and proper lock-files etc to serialize
> > access to a particular cache object while it's being created) fairly
> > easily, but I'm pretty sure people would much prefer a mod_perl thing just
> > to avoid the fork/exec overhead with Apache (I think mod_perl allows
> > Apache to run perl scripts without it), and that means I'm not the right
> > person any more.
>
> True about mod_perl.  Haven't messed with that myself, either.
> fork/exec really is very cheap on Linux, so it's not a huge deal.

I've been playing around with a "native git" cgi thingy the last week
(I call it cgit),  and I've been thinking about adding exactly this
kind of caching to it. And since it's basically a standard git command
written in C, it should have less overhead than any perl
implementation.

It's far from ready yet, but I'll try to publish some code this
weekend just in case someone finds it interesting.

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