Re: git-index-pack really does suck..

On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

So even with --paranoid (aka what we have now) index-pack still
should be faster than unpack-objects for any sizeable transfer,
and is just as "safe".

I agree 100% that index-pack is much much MUCH better than unpack-objects 
ever was, so ..

If its the missing-object lookup that is expensive, maybe we should
try to optimize that.  We do it enough already in other parts of
the code...

Well, for all other cases it's really the "object found" case that is 
worth optimizing for, so I think optimizing for "no object" is actually 
wrong, unless it also speeds up (or at least doesn't make it worse) the 
"real" normal case.

		Linus