Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Brett Schwarz writes: > > As Shawn mentions below, he started using namespaces for git-gui. I > > think gitk could benefit from that as well, along with a few other > > changes. > > Gitk ends up handling pretty significant amounts of data. In > particular the per-commit data can get to gigabytes, and processing it > is pretty cpu-intensive. I did try using namespaces for the > per-commit data but I found that the performance hit to be more than I > was willing to tolerate. If that is the case then an obvious direction is to start using C for the actual Git operations/datastore and Tcl/Tk for the basic UI layout and event handlers. If we go down that path for gitk then I may wind up doing the same for git-gui. Because gitk would require the tcl/tk heders and libraries at that point, so also requiring them for git-gui wouldn't be too unreasonable. But fortunately git-gui doesn't have to deal with gigabytes of data; I'm only really looking at the "dirty" stuff, or at worst, the blame for an entire file. -- 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