On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 2:28 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> This version adds the actual thread safety, >> that is promised in the documentation, however it doesn't add any optimization, >> i.e. it's a single global lock. But as we do not expect contention, that is fine. > > Because we have to start _somewhere_, I agree it is a good approach > to first try the simplest implementation and then optimize later, > but is it an agreed consensus that we do not expect contention? > I agree on that. Did you mean this is obvious to the reader? I just wanted to state how I'll do it, such that if in the future someone digs up this code, they'll know I did not look at performance in the first run.