Re: irc usage..

On 5/23/06, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

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I simply was too lazy to count the actual filenames' lengths. ;-)

I think cvsimport predates that option, but these days that loop
can be optimized by feeding --index-info from standard input.

Oh, yep, that'd be a good addition. I think we can also cut down on
the number of fork+exec calls (as Linus points out they are killing
us) by caching some data we should already have that we are repeatedly
asking from git-ref-parse.

Other TODOs from my reading of the code last night...

 - Switch from line-oriented reads to block reads when fetching files
from CVS. This gentoo has repo has some large binary blobs in it and
we end up slurping them into memory.

 - Stop abusing globals in commit() -- pass the commit data as parameters.

 - Further profiling? Whatever we are doing, we aren't doing it fast :(

Will be trying to do those things in the next few days, don't mind if
someone jumps in as well.



martin