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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>,
	Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git-import.sh using git-fast-import
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 11:20:25 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0708291116310.16727@xanadu.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070829041120.GA25779@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Wed, 29 Aug 2007, Jeff King wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 11:47:25PM -0400, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> 
> > Yea, so like the parallel pack-objects experiment that Nico had
> > done recently we decreased wall-clock time at the expense of using a
> > larger amount of the system resources.  That is bad as we use more
> > CPU time than we saved in wallclock time.  Usually a bad tradeoff,
> > unless you have a realtime requirement you have to meet.
> 
> It depends. If we all have 64-core processors in a few years, then it
> might be a better tradeoff.

Depends.  In the experiment I did, I clearly identified flaws showing 
that the direction was bad and that another approach has to be pursued.  
Thinking in terms of 64-core processors is no excuse for bad designs.

> Of course, some users might want to optimize
> for wall-clock time, while others want power consumption, etc.

Better get both at the same time when possible.


Nicolas

      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-08-29 15:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-27 16:13 git-import.sh using git-fast-import Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2007-08-27 17:44 ` Johannes Gilger
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     [not found]           ` <20070829041120.GA25779@coredump.intra.peff.net>
2007-08-29 15:20             ` Nicolas Pitre [this message]

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