Subject: Re: Git and GCC

From: Giovanni Bajo <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:26:54 +0100

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