Hi, On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Noel Grandin wrote: > Imran M Yousuf wrote: > > To start with I was actually thinking of JNI + "exec from C". So later > > when libification is completed we can replace the execs with call to > > the libs directly instead. Is this a viable fourth option (sorry I > > forgot to mention it the first time around)? > > > > > > This is probably a good idea. JGIT is always going to be 2 steps behind > the native GIT code when comes to accessing on-disk structures. Well, if you go the JNI route, you will always be platform dependent. IMO this is one of the lesser intelligent things to do when relying on Java. > This is also how the subversion plugin for the Eclipse IDE worked in the > beginning and the performance seemed to be acceptable (to me). Git is much faster than subversion, so you will feel the overhead of fork()ing, especially on Windows. 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
