Re: [RFC \ WISH] Add -o option to git-rev-list

["Marco Costalba" <mcostalba@gmail.com>]

On 12/11/06, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
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> On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> > That's not timing what I asked. That's just timing the "git-rev-list". You
> > need to time the "cat" part too. Either use a script, or do something like
> >
> >       time sh -c "git-rev-list ... | cat > /dev/null".
>
> Btw, if you do this, you'll actually see one of the _real_ advantages of
> pipes.
>
> On an SMP system, you'll easily get output like "110%CPU", since now the
> git-rev-list and the user can run in parallel. Of course, they can do so
> with temp-files too, but then you have all the "is it a true EOF, or is it
> just the fact that the writer hasn't written everything yet" problem (and
> the _normal_ solution for that is to simply not allow any overlapping
> work).
>

Sorry for wrong data, I will repost as soon as I can.

Regarding the _normal_  solution we have one more hipotesys to take
advantage of: git-rev-list when has nothing more to read..exits.

This is what lead to the exit loop condition based on git-rev-list is
still alive, instead of messing with an EOF.

     eof  = (no more data && !rev_list_is_running);

With this we could enter the loop one more time then necessary, but
nothing else bad should happen.