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From: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
To: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git-diff-tree inordinately (O(M*N)) slow on files with many changes
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 09:54:46 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0610160953480.7697@alien.or.mcafeemobile.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ejt8p5l9.fsf@rho.meyering.net>

On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Jim Meyering wrote:

> Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Jim Meyering wrote:
> >
> >> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
> >> > On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >> ...
> >> > So I think xdiff has chosen too small a hash. Can you try what happens if
> >> > you change xdl_hashbits() (in xdiff/xutil.c) instead? Try making it return
> >> > a bigger value (for example, by initializing "bits" to 2 instead of 0),
> >> > and see if that makes a difference.
> >>
> >> It makes no difference.
> >>
> >> Bear in mind that there are a *lot* of duplicate lines in the files
> >> being compared: filtering each through "sort -u" removes 40-50k lines.
> >
> > Ok, try to bring down XDL_MAX_EQLIMIT to something like 8 or 16 ...
> 
> That helps a little.
> Now, instead of taking 63s, my test takes ~30s.
> (32 for XDL_MAX_EQLIMIT = 16, 30 for XDL_MAX_EQLIMIT = 8)

That's too much still. May I have the offending files?



- Davide

  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-16 16:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-16 14:12 git-diff-tree inordinately (O(M*N)) slow on files with many changes Jim Meyering
2006-10-16 15:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-16 16:12   ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-16 16:33     ` Jim Meyering
2006-10-16 16:42       ` Davide Libenzi
2006-10-16 16:50         ` Jim Meyering
2006-10-16 16:54           ` Davide Libenzi [this message]
2006-10-16 16:57             ` Jim Meyering
2006-10-16 17:02               ` Davide Libenzi
2006-10-16 17:56           ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-16 18:03             ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-16 18:41               ` Davide Libenzi
2006-10-16 18:18             ` Davide Libenzi
2006-10-16 18:51               ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-16 19:44                 ` Davide Libenzi
2006-10-16 20:29                   ` Jakub Narebski
2006-10-16 22:53                 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-10-16 23:24                   ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-16 23:52                     ` Davide Libenzi
2006-10-16 18:24             ` Jim Meyering
2006-10-16 18:30               ` Davide Libenzi
2006-10-16 18:43                 ` Jim Meyering
2006-10-16 16:54       ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-16 16:36     ` Davide Libenzi
2006-10-16 16:57       ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-16 16:24   ` Davide Libenzi
2006-10-16 16:54     ` Jakub Narebski

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