Re: Significant performance waste in git-svn and friends

On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 08:47:10PM +0200, Mike Hommey [off-list ref] wrote:

Some notes about git-svn:
- A few lines above the patched zone, the file is already read once to
  do the MD5 sum. It should be possible to do SHA-1, MD5 sums and
  deflate in just one pass.

FWIW, I tried, and it doesn't make it much quicker to do everything in one pass.
99% of the speedup comes from not using git-hash-object.

Mike