On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 10:49:55AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> That said, I think that it would be lovely to just default to
> USE_SHA1DC and just put the whole attack behind us. Yes, it's slower.
> No, it doesn't really seem to matter that much in practice.

My biggest concern is the index-pack operation. Try this:

  time git clone --no-local --bare linux tmp.git

with and without USE_SHA1DC. I get:

  [w/ openssl]
  real  1m52.307s
  user  2m47.928s
  sys   0m14.992s

  [w/ sha1dc]
  real  3m4.043s
  user  6m16.412s
  sys   0m13.772s

That's real latency the user will see. It's hard to break it down,
though. The actual "receiving" phase is generally going to be network
bound. The delta-resolution that happens afterwards is totally local and
CPU-bound (but does run in parallel).

And of course this repository tends to the larger side (though certainly
there are bigger ones), and you only feel the pain on clone or when
doing an initial push, not day-to-day.

So maybe we just suck it up and accept that it's a bit slower.

-Peff

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