Re: inotify daemon speedup for git [POC/HACK]

Avery Pennarun [off-list ref] writes:

For speed, the bup index can just mark entries as deleted using a flag
rather than actually rewriting the whole indexfile.  Unfortunately, I
failed to make it sufficiently flexible to *add* new entries without
needing to rewrite the whole thing.  In bup, that's a big deal
(especially since python is kind of slow and there are typically >1
million files in the index).  In git, it's maybe not so bad; after
all, the current implementation rewrites the index *every* time and
nobody notices.

Sidenote: couldn't you do what e.g. Mercurial did, i.e. rewrite
critical for performance parts in C?

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Jakub Narebski
Poland
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