On Monday 2009 January 19 12:00:10 Martin Langhoff wrote: >On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> ... If we had >> an inotify sort of daemon to keep the data current so the prompt >> doesn't have to stat every source file on every display it would >> be reasonable, but we don't have such a thing yet for Git. > >[T]he kernel's cache will outperform any userland >attempting to keep track of the fs via inotify. Really? Why have inotify then? I thought its only purpose is "to keep track of the fs". If it is never a net win, why even use/provide it? -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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