Re: [GSoC] Git Blog 12

On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 5:47 AM ZheNing Hu [off-list ref] wrote:

ZheNing Hu [off-list ref] 于2021年8月10日周二 下午10:20写道：

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I think find_subpos() called by grab_sub_body_contents() and find_wholine()
called by grab_person() are evidences that we are repeating iteratively.
But the proportion of time they occupy is too small. 0.0142% and 0.0109%

Using such a method may reduce some unnecessary scans [1]
But it can do very little optimization... 1.6%.
On the other hand, our optimization should focus on the default format of
`git cat-file --batch`.

My new idea is to need a fast path: when we use the default format,
let us directly execute get_object() to avoid unnecessary traversal
and checking.

I think it should be done not only when we use the default format but
when we use any format that only needs the metadata provided by
get_object(). This way that wouldn't be a special case fast path, but
rather a generally useful optimization.