[PATCH 0/4] Add a compile-time option to use the new, very fast sha1dc Rust crate
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From: Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget <hidden>
Date: 2026-09-28 15:51:33
I stumbled across this new Rust crate last week. Its performance numbers are
quite impressive. Naturally, I want to make use of this and get for Windows,
which is used on many monorepos where this makes a real difference: In a
pretty fast and loose test, I verified that a git index-pack runs roughly
three times faster solely due to using those SIMD-based optimizations!
As a safety precaution, because this sha1dc crate is quite new, I wanted to
introduce an escape hatch: core.sha1dcBackend=c, but turn it on by default,
which is the reason for the three additional patches. Should these patches
be undesirable for the Git project? I would not be mad at all if they were
simply dropped.
Johannes Schindelin (4):
libgitcore: add `sha1dc` as an optional feature
sha1dc: allow selecting the C backend without rebuilding
pthread: provide `pthread_once()` shims for Windows and for
NO_PTHREADS
sha1dc: make `sha1dc_init()` thread-safe
Cargo.toml | 4 ++
Documentation/config/core.adoc | 5 ++
Makefile | 29 +++++++++
compat/win32/pthread.c | 16 +++++
compat/win32/pthread.h | 5 ++
hash.h | 5 ++
sha1dc_git.c | 109 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
sha1dc_git.h | 5 +-
sha1dc_rs.h | 37 +++++++++++
src/lib.rs | 2 +
src/sha1dc_rs.rs | 78 +++++++++++++++++++++++
t/helper/test-sha1.c | 19 +++++-
t/t0013-sha1dc.sh | 21 ++++++-
thread-utils.h | 16 +++++
14 files changed, 343 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 sha1dc_rs.h
create mode 100644 src/sha1dc_rs.rs
base-commit: 3bc0341126508f78f5869cbfc0005e987efdf0c7
Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-2240%2Fdscho%2Foptionally-use-sha1dc-rs-v1
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-2240/dscho/optionally-use-sha1dc-rs-v1
Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/2240
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