Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > > If its the missing-object lookup that is expensive, maybe we should > > try to optimize that. We do it enough already in other parts of > > the code... > > Well, for all other cases it's really the "object found" case that is > worth optimizing for, so I think optimizing for "no object" is actually > wrong, unless it also speeds up (or at least doesn't make it worse) the > "real" normal case. Right. But maybe we shouldn't be scanning for packfiles every time we don't find a loose object. Especially if the caller is in a context where we actually *expect* to not find said object like half of the time... say in git-add/update-index. ;-) -- Shawn. - 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