On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 4:21 PM, Brandon Williams <bmwill@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This is still very much in a WIP state, though it does pass all tests. What > I'm hoping for here is to get a discussion started about the feasibility of a > change like this and hopefully to get the ball rolling. Is this a direction we > want to move in? Is it worth the pain? I would be really happy to see this series land eventually. The introduction of a repo object will deliver performance at a higher level, such as * (remarked by Ben): enabling of threading * submodules do not need to spawn processes * I would imagine that developer velocity will go up by having less global state in the long run. Thanks for working on this. Stefan