Re: Mercurial 0.3 vs git benchmarks

Thomas Glanzmann
2005-04-27T19:02:27Z

Hello,

> Directory hashing slows down operations that do linear sweeps through
> the filesystem reading every single file, simply because without
> dir_index, there is likely to be a correlation between inode order and
> directory order, whereas with dir_index, readdir() returns entries in
> hash order.

thank you for the awareness training. Than mutt should be slower, too.
Maybe I should repeat that tests.

Thomas