Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] wrote:
On the git repository, using MinGW:
Using cygwin:
IOW MinGW wins hands down with an average 0.33s vs cygwin with an average
0.75s. (I am fairly certain that you must not trust sys times.)
Just curious, but were these tests run with mmap(), or NO_MMAP?
Clearly, for a packed repository most of the overhead should be
in getting to the pack data itself (as everything else is pure
userspace).
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Shawn.