Subject: Re: Git is not scalable with too many refs/*

From: Michael Haggerty <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:07:15 +0200

On 09/27/2011 11:01 AM, Julian Phillips wrote:
> It has to be hot-cache, otherwise time taken to read the refs from disk
> will mean that it is always slow.  On my Mac it seems to _always_ be
> slow reading the refs from disk, so even the "fast" case still takes ~17m.

This case should be helped by lazy-loading of loose references, which I
am working on.  So if you develop some benchmarking code, it would help
me with my work.

Michael

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