Linus Torvalds writes: > So we may do a fork/exit in a millisecond, but on the other hand, we can > generally open a file in a microsecond. So we're definitely talking about > several orders of magnitude difference.. Unless the file isn't in memory, in which case it's probably around a millisecond or more... Do you think there is any way to speed up the cold-cache case for git-ls-remote and git-rev-parse with thousands of heads and tags? Paul. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html