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

Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] wrote:

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

quoted

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.

Right.  But maybe we shouldn't be scanning for packfiles every
time we don't find a loose object.  Especially if the caller is in
a context where we actually *expect* to not find said object like
half of the time... say in git-add/update-index.  ;-)

-- 
Shawn.