On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 05:00:35PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > I had the impression that Brian found a faster implementation, which could > not be included for license reasons... > > But for the time being, this is better than nothing, I guess.
It wasn't me. It was "Mike Ralphson" in the "Some git performance measurements" thread on the vger list. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/67424 However, I came to the conclusion that he was actually comparing against glibc's quicksort implementation; his comment about being tuned for "Sun 4/260" matches a comment in glibc's quicksort implementation, not the mergesort that I used as a base. Later, in: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/67443 He said the mergesort in mingw was faster. -bcd
