Re: Performance issue of 'git branch'

On Sat 25.Jul'09 at 21:57:39 +0300, Timo Hirvonen wrote:

Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

So curl really must die. It may not matter for the expensive operations, 
but a lot of scripting is about running all those "cheap" things that just 
add up over time.

SELinux is the problem, not curl.

I don't have SELinux, and without curl it takes ~50% less time (on
top of Linus' previous optimizations!).

The time to open() all the libs really sums up to a considerable 
fraction (when the total time is low, not when compared to the 
huge 6 secs of before)

Without curl:
[mafra@Pilar:linux-2.6]$ grep open strace-nocurl.log |grep lib \

| awk -F "<" '{print $2}' | sed s/\>// | awk '{s += $1} END {print s}'

0.070104

With curl:
[mafra@Pilar:linux-2.6]$ grep open strace-curl.log |grep lib \

| awk -F "<" '{print $2}' | sed s/\>// | awk '{s += $1} END {print s}'

0.249764

PS: It is interesting that in my laptop the time required
to open libcurl alone is 20x the total time of 'git branch' for Linus'
in his supercomputer:
open("/usr/lib64/libcurl.so.4", O_RDONLY) = 3 <0.066239>