Brandon Casey [off-list ref] writes:
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Using an index takes 41 ms longer, or roughly 7.8% longer.
Jeff King measured a no-op push of a single ref into a remote repo
with 370,000 refs:
before after
real 0m1.087s 0m1.156s
user 0m1.344s 0m1.412s
sys 0m0.288s 0m0.284s
Using an index takes 69 ms longer, or roughly 6.3% longer.
None of the measurements above required transferring any objects to
the remote repository. If the push required transferring objects and
updating the refs in the remote repository, the impact of preparing
the search index would be even smaller.
A similar operation is performed in the reverse direction when pruning
using a matching or pattern refspec. Let's avoid O(m*n) behavior in
the same way by lazily preparing an index on the local refs.
Thanks. Both the explanation and the code change makes sense to me.
Will queue.