On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > So we'd have to either: > > 1. Decide that doesn't matter. > > 2. Have callers specify a "damn the NULs, I want it fast" flag. 2+. Avoid FILE* interface and go with syscalls for reading packed-refs? If mmaping the entire file could be a problem for some platform because it's too large, we have code for reading (with bufferring) from fd somewhere, e.g. index-pack. > 3. Find some alternative that is more robust than fgets, and faster > than getc. I don't think there is anything in stdio, but I am not > above dropping in a faster non-portable call if it is available, > and then falling back to the current code otherwise. -- Duy -- 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