On 07/04/14 19:35, Johannes Sixt wrote: > Am 05.04.2014 11:19, schrieb Johannes Sixt: >> Am 04.04.2014 22:58, schrieb Junio C Hamano: >>> * sz/mingw-index-pack-threaded (2014-03-19) 1 commit >>> - Enable index-pack threading in msysgit. >>> >>> What is the status of this topic? A failure report exists >>> ($gmane/245170), and I am aware of Duy's $gmane/245034 but that was >>> where the discussion stalled. Is everybody waiting for everybody >>> else to get the discussion unstuck? >> >> I still have to cross-check Duy's patch. I'll hopefully get to it in the >> next days and report back. > > The test suite passes with Duy's patch ($gmane/245034), but t5302 fails > with this patch with a MinGW build. The patches touch the Cygwin > configuration, but I cannot test a Cygwin build. I haven't tested these on cygwin yet. However, only the old version of cygwin is affected (newer cygwin has a thread-safe pread) and, since I no longer have an old installation, I _can't_ test it anyway. :( (I updated cygwin earlier today and received a brand new cygwin dll with today's date!). > I have, however, lost track of what the objective of these patches is. > Is the threaded version significantly faster, and these patches are > worth it? Indeed. I haven't seen any numbers. ATB, Ramsay Jones -- 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