On 04.09.2016 20:53, Michael Haggerty wrote: > On 09/04/2016 10:40 PM, David Turner wrote: >> On Sun, 2016-09-04 at 18:08 +0200, Michael Haggerty wrote: >> >>> +/* A linked list of ref_stores for submodules: */ >>> +static struct ref_store *submodule_ref_stores; >> >> I don't like the per-submodule stores being in a linked list, which >> requires a linear search. Stefan has, I think, been doing a bunch of >> work to scale git to support on the order of thousands of submodules, >> which this potentially breaks. What about a hashmap?
Well I did mostly usability up to this point, not efficiency in terms of fast execution. > > I agree it's not ideal, but this linked list is not new. Before this > patch the same code was in `files-backend.c`, and before patch [03/38] > essentially the same linked list was stored as `submodule_ref_caches`. > So this is not a regression, and I'd rather not address it in this patch > series. > > CC Stefan in case he'd like to put it on his radar. Honestly, I've never > checked how often the submodule reference cache is used in real life. I think I need to spend some time on the data structures eventually. Thanks for cc'ing Stefan > > Michael >
