I've posted a patch to make webkit-patch warn users when they're on a 64-bit system with a 32-bit git: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50715
4 seconds on every git status is huge. webkit-patch upload has to run at least 3 git status commands (due to expecting files to change on disk during operation), so this means a savings of 12 seconds on your machine! -eric On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Mihai Parparita <[email protected]> wrote: > After complaining to a Linux-using friend for the n-th time that "git > status" was much slower on my Snow Leopard machine than on his Linux > box, I decided to look into why this is. As it turns out, most people > get git binaries from http://code.google.com/p/git-osx-installer/, > which are 32-bit. Switching to 64-bit binaries made git status go from > 6.58s to 2.50s (mainly because this does fewer mmaps). > > You can download a 64-bit binary installer from > > https://github.com/downloads/mihaip/git_osx_installer/git-1.7.3.3-intel-x86_64-leopard.dmg > , > or you can build it yourself (more details at > > http://blog.persistent.info/2010/12/making-git-faster-on-large-repositories.html > ). > > Mihai > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev >
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