On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 7:00 PM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: >> > Actually, I'd just as soon see timings for "git log --format=%h" or "git > log --raw", as opposed to patches 1 and 2. > > You won't see a 90% speedup there, but you will see the actual > improvement that real-world users are going to experience, which is way > more important, IMHO. Yup, "log --raw -r" would really exercise the abbreviation machinery without spending time on the diff machinery, and it would be a good test.