Re: Why Git is so fast

On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Michael Witten wrote:

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 07:17, Jakub Narebski [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

I hope that JGit developers can
tell us whether using higher level language affects performance, how
much, and what features of higher-level language are causing decrease
in performance.

Java is definitely higher than C, but you can do some pretty low-level
operations on bits and bytes and the like, not to mention the presence
of a JIT.

My point: I don't think that Java can tell us anything special in this regard.

Let's rephrase question a bit then: what low-level operation were needed
for good performance in JGit? 

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Jakub Narebski
Poland