Re: [PATCH 3/3] Use struct tree in diff-tree

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>]

On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> The one to git-tar-tree I've already applied, mostly because I
> was not careful enough and especially I did not care enough
> about performance of that program.  On my slow machine the tip
> of kernel before you came back takes 9.2 seconds wallclock as
> opposed to 8.7 seconds to tar up, so the patch degrades the
> performance by about 5%.  Maybe we would want to revert that one
> as well.

Hmm. Rather than revert it outright, it might be better to make it use the 
nicer parsing functions and "struct tree_desc".

It shouldn't look _that_ different from the "struct tree" version: instead 
of doing

	item = item->next;

it would do

	update_tree_entry(tree);

instead.

Give me a minute, I'll send you patches.

		Linus