On Wed, 30 May 2007, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > To test this I split the Linux repository into 66 packs and performed a > "time git-rev-list --objects --all > /dev/null". Best results are as > follows: > > Pack Sort w/o this patch w/ this patch > ------------------------------------------------------------- > recent objects last 26.4s 20.9s > recent objects first 24.9s 18.4s > > This shows that the pack order based on object age has some influence, > but that the last-used-pack heuristic is even more significant in > reducing object lookup. For reference, the same operation on a fully packed into a single pack repository takes 17.1s. So this looks damn good to me. Nicolas - 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