Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Yes, I think that's pretty much the case (though most of my >> Git-on-Windows experience is from cygwin long ago, where the stat >> performance was truly horrendous). Have you tried setting >> core.preloadindex, which should run the stats in parallel? > > I wonder if preloadindex shouldn't be enabled by default. I am surprised that we haven't done so. Given that we haven't tweaked the parallelism or thread-cost parameters since the inception of the mechanism in Nov 2008, I suspect that we would see praises from some and grievances from other corners of the user base for a while until we find acceptable values for them, but I agree the feature has been in use sufficiently by some people (heh, I just discovered that I don't have it in my config), it can be the default. -- 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