On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 11:58 PM, Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Karsten Blees has done something similar-ish on Windows, and he posted > the results here: > > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/msysgit/fL_jykUmUNE/discussion > > I also seem to remember he doing a ReadDirectoryChangesW version, but > I don't remember what happened with that. Thanks. I came across that but did not remember. For one thing, we know the inotify alternative for Windows: ReadDirectoryChangesW. But the meat of the patch is not about that function. In fact it's dropped in fscache-v3 [1]. It seems that doing FindFirstFile/FindNextFile for an entire directory, cache the results and use it to simulate lstat() is faster on Windows. Sounds similar to preload-index. And because directory listing is cached anyway, opendir/readdir is replaced to read from cache instead of opening the directory again. So it is orthogonal with using ReadDirectoryChangesW/inotify to further reduce the system calls. I copy "git status"'s (impressive) numbers from fscache-v0 for those who are interested in: preload | -u | normal | cached | gain --------+-----+--------+--------+------ false | all | 25.144 | 3.055 | 8.2 false | no | 22.822 | 1.748 | 12.8 true | all | 9.234 | 2.179 | 4.2 true | no | 6.833 | 0.955 | 7.2 [1] https://github.com/kblees/git/commit/35f319609aa046d2350db32d3afa1fa44920e880 -- Duy -- 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