On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 2:54 AM, Stefan Zager <sza...@chromium.org> wrote: > We in the chromium project have a keen interest in adding threading to > git in the pursuit of performance for lengthy operations (checkout, > status, blame, ...). Our motivation comes from hitting some > performance walls when working with repositories the size of chromium > and blink: > > https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src > https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/blink > > We are particularly concerned with the performance of msysgit, and we > have already chalked up a significant performance gain by turning on > the threading code in pack-objects (which was already enabled for > posix platforms, but not on msysgit, owing to the lack of a correct > pread implementation).
How did you manage to do this? I'm not aware of any way to implement pread on Windows (without going down the insanity-path of wrapping and potentially locking inside every IO operation)... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
