I've landed the patch which makes webkit-patch warn if you're using a 32-bit git on a 64-bit Mac. If anyone finds it too spammy, please let me know and either I can find a way to lessen the log spam, or just remove the warning entirely.
-eric On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Eric Seidel <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
