Hi On Wed, Nov 20, 2024, at 08:51, Patrick Steinhardt wrote: > While we generally cannot avoid the first check, the second check is > superfluous in cases where the transaction is an initial one in an > otherwise empty ref store. The check results in multiple ref reads as > well as the creation of a ref iterator for every ref we're checking, > which adds up quite fast when performing the check for many refs. > > Introduce a new flag that allows us to skip this check and wire it up in > such that the backends pass it when running an initial transaction. This Missing word? “wire it up in such that”. Maybe: “wire it up so that”. > leads to significant speedups when migrating ref storage backends. From > "files" to "reftable":
