Hi Peff, On Wed, 14 Sep 2016, Jeff King wrote: > I try a lot of different experiments with git performance, some of them > more hare-brained than others. The ones that succeed end up as real > patches. But I hate for the ones that fail to die a quiet death. Then > nobody learns what _doesn't_ work, and nobody has the opportunity to > point out the spot where I made a stupid mistake that invalidates the > whole result. To show those experiments, with analysis, is a really good idea. I found the zstd experiment in particular very educating, as I wondered about the same: could we maybe use it to accelerate Git operations? Now I know. Ciao, Dscho