On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > > The code is supposed to be there, but I haven't benched. > > Now I have. You da man! > In the kernel repository, I ran this with 'master' version and 'next' > version. The latter uses the --quick mechanism in try_to_simplify. > > $ /usr/bin/time git log -r --raw v2.6.19..master -- drivers/ | wc -l > Three runs on a reasonably quiescent machine (hot cache). Impressive, although not entirely surprising. "try_to_simplify()" is really the most performance-sensitive part of git. I get a similar reduction for that load: 0:04.63 to 0:03.43 elapsed. Good job. Linus - 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