Re: What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2011, #05; Wed, 23)

+Dscho

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:45:33AM +0100, Erik Faye-Lund wrote:

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 1:32 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

And then there's the issue that unlike the C patches these will not be
a no-op that'll be optimized away by the compiler. We'll be calling an
external program for displaying messages. While this is a trivial cost
on Unix (especially in the context we're using it, i.e. not in tight
loops) it's more expensive on Windows.

Ouch. I remember this being brought up earlier, but I just assumed it
had been fixed somehow. The shell-scripts are already pretty slow on
Windows, and the overhead of starting a new process here is quite
significant.

Johannes, can we please try my patch[1] for msys.dll not to load
user32.dll for every msys program (i.e. sh.exe too)? Combined together
with 3 clipboard functions removal (details in [2]) from sh.exe, I bet
this will result in significantly faster shell startup, configure runs,
etc...

This days I have lack of access to windows machines, only wine, so I
desperately need someones help to at least first rebuild msys.dll.


Thanks,
Kirill

[1] http://repo.or.cz/w/msys/kirr.git/commitdiff/f7d7efebd35e8e5bf6d685ff4f1197941984be04
[2] http://repo.or.cz/w/msys/kirr.git/commitdiff/a97bed5d22f9c05f39776d8ea7856db4ce572dc5