Hi, On Sun, 30 Dec 2007, Brian Downing wrote:
> 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. Ah, thanks! So this is settled, then. Ciao, Dscho
