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Re: git mirror at gcc.gnu.org
On 06/11/09 15:18, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> On 06/11/09 14:03, Daniel Berlin wrote:
>> It may be faster for my to rsync it to a 32 core machine, pack it,
>> then rsync it back now that delta compression is threaded.
>> Does it get large enough speedups these days to be worth it?
>
> It's done, and the pack came out 553MB.
>
> Perhaps packing with an even larger window and depth of 250 might
> squeeze a few more MBs off... Worth a try :-)
BTW, I'd be curious to see how much 32 cores can speed up packing.
By default, git-repack autodetects the number of CPUs and spawns threads
accordingly, so it shouldn't require any tuning. You just need a recent
version of git implementing this optimization.
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