On 18 Dec 2006 14:26:36 -0800, Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Linus> You're running this under OS X, aren't you? It's a pig of an OS, but Linus> "almost one hour" vs "25 seconds" is still unreasonable. I agree!
Me too -- but entirely possible. Disk IO is specially painful on OSX. Stat calls are horrid. Using Arch (which abused stat calls to no end) many ops would take 50x-100x longer on OSX than on Linux. A large unpacked repo with git is a real pain -- and packing it can take hours. Once you are packed it's sweet, but large repos are a pain to deal with. You won't impress anyone with performance over a linux kernel repo -- starting up gitk can take a long time. Stat-heavy stuff like git-diff is noticeably slower under OSX. Have you got a linux partition you can boot into to get comparative timings? [This is part of the reason I am migrating my OSX machine to Linux fulltime, now that it seems that mergedfb+randr will let me switch to dual monitors "hot".] cheers, martin - 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