Re: More precise tag following

On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 12:41:54AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

quoted

Based on some (limited) profiling with Shark it seems we spend about
50% of our CPU time doing zlib decompression of objects and almost
another 14% parsing the tree objects to apply the path limiter.

I once tried to use zlib compression level 0 for tree objects
and did not see much difference -- maybe I should dig it up and
find out why.

I don't know exactly what Shawn meant, but a considerable amount of time
in a blame is spent decompressing the blobs. Just for fun, some numbers:

Fully packed, warm cache, core.compression = -1:
$ time git blame Makefile >/dev/null
real    0m5.537s
user    0m5.500s
sys     0m0.032s

Fully packed, warm cache, core.compression = 0:
$ time git blame Makefile >/dev/null
real    0m3.001s
user    0m2.984s
sys     0m0.012s

That's 45% savings. The resulting pack sizes are 11932K compressed and
22308 uncompressed.

-Peff