On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Julian Phillips wrote: > > Rather than sorting the refs list while building it, sort in one go > after it is built using a merge sort. This has a large performance > boost with large numbers of refs. > > Signed-off-by: Julian Phillips <julian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Looks fine. I think that even your new times are a bit high (over two seconds?) but things are clearly better. Have you looked at what takes so long now? 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