Theodore Tso <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 02:21:20PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > I wonder if there is some way to only load the crazy curl stuff when we > > actually want open a http: connection. > > Well, we could use dlopen(), but I'm not sure that qualifies as a > _sane_ solution --- especially given that there are approximately 15 > interfaces used by git, that we'd have to resolve using dlsym(). Yea, that's not sane. Probably the better approach is to have git fetch and git push be a different binary from main git, so we only pay the libcurl loading overheads when we hit transport. -- Shawn. -- 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