On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 08:34:57PM -0500, Jeff King wrote: > 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. The -r actually doesn't matter, since what's being listed is a blob, not a tree, so there is no recursion. Mike -- 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