On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 09:53:57AM +0800, Tay Ray Chuan wrote: > > Could we have some benchmarks to let the readers get a feel of how much > > improvement this patch brings in? > > On my msysgit machine with Marat's problematic repo > (git://slonopotamus.org/git-diff): > > rctay@TEST-123 /tmp/slono > $ time git show >/dev/null > > real 0m8.538s > user 0m0.000s > sys 0m0.031s > > rctay@TEST-123 /tmp/slono > $ time /git/git show >/dev/null > > real 0m0.672s > user 0m0.031s > sys 0m0.031s Wait, what? It was using 0 seconds of user time before, but still taking 8.5 seconds? What was it doing? Did you actually warm up your disk cache before taking these measurements? -Peff -- 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