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Re: Git and GCC


On 12/7/2007 6:23 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:

Is SHA a significant portion of the compute during these repacks?
I should run oprofile...

SHA1 is almost totally insignificant on x86. It hardly shows up. But we have a good optimized version there.


zlib tends to be a lot more noticeable (especially the uncompression: it may be faster than compression, but it's done _so_ much more that it totally dominates).

Have you considered alternatives, like: http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/ucl/ -- Giovanni Bajo


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