Re: Some git performance measurements..

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Mike Ralphson wrote:

> On Dec 7, 2007 1:49 PM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Mike Ralphson wrote:
> >
> > > I benchmarked 3 alternative qsorts, qsortG [2] was the fastest on my 
> > > system but has funky licensing, the NetBSD qsort was middle-range 
> > > and the glibc one the slowest of the three (but that could be due to 
> > > it being tuned for a "Sun 4/260"). All of them show over 100x speed 
> > > improvements on a git-status of my main repo (104s -> ~0.7s)
> >
> > How is "You may use it in anything you like;" funky licensing?  It is 
> > effectively public domain.
> 
> I did ask what the git licensing policy was (GPL2 or GPL2-compatible) 
> but got no response. The author's wishes state:
> 
>  * This code may be reproduced freely provided
> [long list]

Okay, sorry, I did not bother reading further when I read "You may use it 
in anything you like;".

But if the author did not respond, it might be a better idea to just 
reimplement it.

Ciao,
Dscho