On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 08:24:48PM -0500, Jeff King wrote: > However, this is not what trees created by git-notes look like. It > shards the object sha1s into subtrees (1a/2b/{36}), and I think does so > dynamically in a way that keeps each individual tree size low. The > in-memory data structure then only "faults in" tree objects as they are > needed. So a single lookup should only hit a small part of the total > tree. > > Doing a single "git notes edit HEAD" in my case caused the notes code to > write the result using its sharding algorithm. Subsequent "git notes > show" invocations were only 14ms. > > Did you use something besides git-notes to create the tree? From your > examples, it looks like you were accounting for the sharding during > lookup, so maybe this is leading in the wrong direction (but if so, I > could not reproduce your times at all even with a much larger case). Hmph. Having just written all that, I looked at your example again, and you are running "git ls-tree -r", which would read the whole tree anyway. So "git notes" should be _faster_ for a single lookup. Something weird is definitely going on. Can you use "strace" or "perf" to get a sense of where the time is going? Has your repository been packed recently? -Peff -- 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