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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: amisha <amishhhaaaa@gmail.com>,
	 git@vger.kernel.org,  stolee@gmail.com, newren@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sparse-checkout: optimize string_list construction
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2026 11:06:21 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqy0lt4e36.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260119053251.GA1991605@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:32:51 -0500")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> On Fri, Jan 16, 2026 at 11:11:16AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> > Improve O(n^2) complexity to O(n log n) while building a sorted
>> > 'string_list' by constructing it unsorted then sorting it
>> > followed by removing duplicates.
>> 
>> By the way, do we have t/perf/ that substanticates the performance
>> claim here (in other words, how much improvement are we expecting in
>> practice)?
>
> IMHO it is not that big a deal to demonstrate the perf improvement in
> the test suite.
> ... a one-off hyperfine output in the commit message would be
> enough.

Thanks, I agree with this conclusion; I didn't expect a huge
difference from this change unless N is meaningfully large anyway.


  reply	other threads:[~2026-01-19 19:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-01-14 19:28 [PATCH] sparse-checkout: optimize string_list construction amisha
2026-01-14 21:35 ` Jeff King
2026-01-18  2:39   ` Derrick Stolee
2026-01-15 12:56 ` [PATCH v2] " amisha
2026-01-15 13:09 ` [PATCH v3] " amisha
2026-01-15 13:15   ` Amisha Chhajed
2026-01-15 20:09     ` Jeff King
2026-01-16 17:03       ` Amisha Chhajed
2026-01-15 22:26     ` René Scharfe
2026-01-16  8:30       ` Amisha Chhajed
2026-01-16 17:17         ` Junio C Hamano
2026-01-18  2:46           ` Derrick Stolee
2026-01-18 13:09             ` Amisha Chhajed
2026-01-15 13:55   ` Junio C Hamano
2026-01-16 16:50 ` [PATCH] " amisha
2026-01-16 19:11   ` Junio C Hamano
2026-01-18 13:07     ` Amisha Chhajed
2026-01-19  5:32     ` Jeff King
2026-01-19 19:06       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2026-01-19 12:33 ` [PATCH v5 1/2] " amisha
2026-01-19 17:04   ` Derrick Stolee
2026-01-19 18:33     ` Pushkar Singh
2026-01-20 15:47     ` Amisha Chhajed
2026-01-20 15:38 ` [PATCH v6] sparse-checkout: optimize string_list construction and add tests to verify deduplication amisha
2026-01-20 20:37   ` Derrick Stolee
2026-01-21 13:00   ` [PATCH v7] " Amisha Chhajed
2026-01-21 16:28     ` Derrick Stolee
2026-01-21 16:51       ` Junio C Hamano

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