Alex Riesen wrote: > MacOS X is famous for its bad perfomance when doing serious work. > The mmap(2) of it, in particular. You can't blame MacOS X mmap(2) for git's slow execution of "git log". Here are is execution times of "git log tr.c > output" - with git-1.5.0-rc4 built with -DNO_MMAP real 0m26.032s user 0m13.580s sys 0m11.730s - with git-1.5.0-rc4 built with the default settings: real 0m25.469s user 0m13.530s sys 0m11.490s You can see that using mmap() provides a speedup of about 2% on MacOS X, which is similar to the 4% than Shawn measured on Linux. Bruno - 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