On Sat, Nov 3, 2018 at 1:38 AM Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Duy Nguyen <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 2:32 PM Ben Peart <peartben@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >> From: Ben Peart <benpeart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >> > >> During an "add", a call is made to run_diff_files() which calls > >> check_remove() for each index-entry. The preload_index() code distributes > >> some of the costs across multiple threads. > > > > Instead of doing this site by site. How about we make read_cache() > > always do multithread preload? > > I suspect that it would be a huge performance killer. > > Many codepaths do not even want to know if the working tree files > have been modified, even though they need to know what's in the > index. Think "git commit-tree", "git diff --cached", etc. Ah. I keep forgetting read_cache_preload is loading the index _and_ refreshing. I thought the two had some different semantics but failed to see it last time. -- Duy