Hi, On Sun, 20 Jan 2008, Steffen Prohaska wrote: > On Jan 20, 2008, at 2:48 AM, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > On Sat, 19 Jan 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > Best time before: > > > > > > [torvalds@woody linux]$ time git commit > /dev/null > > > real 0m0.399s > > > user 0m0.232s > > > sys 0m0.164s > > > > > > Best time after: > > > > > > [torvalds@woody linux]$ time git commit > /dev/null > > > real 0m0.254s > > > user 0m0.140s > > > sys 0m0.112s > > > > Wow. > > > > > I bet you'll see a much bigger performance improvement from this on > > > Windows in particular. > > > > I bet so, too. Traditionally, filesystem calls are painfully slow on > > Windows. > > > > But I cannot test before Monday, so I would not be mad if somebody else > > could perform some tests on Windows. > > Here are timings for Windows XP running in a virtual machine on a > Laptop. The work tree contains 7k files. I stripped user and > sys times because they are apparently meaningless for MINGW. > > Best time before: > > $ time git commit >/dev/null > real 0m1.662s > > Best time after: > > $ time git commit >/dev/null > real 0m1.196s > > The absolute time improvement is obviously larger, although the > relative improvement is slightly smaller than in Linus' example. > > > And here are the timings for the host system, which is Mac OS X, > on the same work tree. > > Best time before: > > $ time git commit >/dev/null > real 0m0.571s > user 0m0.332s > sys 0m0.237s > > Best time after: > > $ time git commit >/dev/null > real 0m0.463s > user 0m0.273s > sys 0m0.186s > > Interestingly, the relative improvements are even smaller on Mac > OS X. Still, nothing to spit at. FWIW I have made two patches which should be probably folded into Linus' patch; I will post them as a reply. Ciao, Dscho - 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
