Re: way to automatically add untracked files?

Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] writes:

... (except, as we found out last week, we've had a huge 
performance regression, so that's actually a really slow way to do it, and 
so it's actually faster to do

	git ls-files -o | git update-index --add --stdin
	git commit -a

instead...

Is it still the case after the fix in rc4?  Other than the
theoretical "on multi-core, ls-files and update-index can run in
parallel" performance boost potential, I thought the fixed
"git-add ." would be the same...