The function read_config_if_needed used a list pointer to determined whether it had already been called. However, if the user had no diff drivers, the function would repeatedly read the config (typically once per diffed file). Instead, let's use a signal variable so that we read it only once (note that we may actually still read it an extra time, since the config may already have been read outside of this function). This reduces the cost of git-whatchanged -p >/dev/null from 34 seconds to 33 seconds. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> --- This are might be changed from the fallout of the other mail I just sent, but I wanted to at least mention it. The speedup is not terribly significant, but it just seems stupid to parse the config file thousands of times. And I suspect on slow-I/O systems (like Cygwin) that it might make more of a difference. diff.c | 5 +++++ 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/diff.c b/diff.c index 5bdc111..f6a8515 100644 --- a/diff.c +++ b/diff.c @@ -61,10 +61,15 @@ static struct ll_diff_driver { static void read_config_if_needed(void) { + static int done = 0; + if (done) + return; + if (!user_diff_tail) { user_diff_tail = &user_diff; git_config(git_diff_ui_config); } + done = 1; } /* -- 1.5.4.rc2.1122.g6954-dirty - 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