Hi, On Sun, 26 Jul 2009, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 07/25/2009 01:59 AM, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > > 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. > > > > Or make the transports shared libraries, and use dlopen() to open the > transport and dlsym() to resolve the struct transport object exported by the > library. ... and introduce all kinds of braindamage to the Makefile so we can properly compile .dll files on Windows? Umm, thanks, but no. Ciao, Dscho -- 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