Re: [PATCH 0/5] Use watchman to reduce index refresh time

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On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 3:54 PM, Paolo Ciarrocchi
<paolo.ciarrocchi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 2:55 PM, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Duy,
>
>> This series builds on top of the index-helper series I just sent and
>> uses watchman to keep track of file changes in order to avoid lstat()
>> at refresh time. The series can also be found at [1]
>>
>> When I started this work, watchman did not support Windows yet. It
>> does now, even if still experimental [2]. So Windows people, please
>> try it out if you have time.
>>
>> To put all pieces so far together, we have split-index to reduce index
>> write time, untracked cache to reduce I/O as well as computation for
>> .gitignore, index-helper for index read time and this series for
>> lstat() at refresh time. The remaining piece is killing lstat() from
>> untracked cache, but right now it's just some idea and incomplete
>> code.
>
> Did you manage to measure the speedup introduced by this series?

It was from last year. I may have measured it but because I didn't
save it in the commit message, it was lost anyway. Installing watchman
and measuring with webkit.git soon..
-- 
Duy
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