Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't sort ref_list too early

From: Michael Haggerty <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2011 06:58:53 +0200

On 09/27/2011 02:00 AM, Julian Phillips wrote:
> get_ref_dir is called recursively for subdirectories, which means that
> we were calling sort_ref_list for each directory of refs instead of
> once for all the refs.  This is a massive wast of processing, so now
> just call sort_ref_list on the result of the top-level get_ref_dir, so
> that the sort is only done once.

+1

I think this patch should also be considered for maint, since it is
noninvasive and fixes a bad performance regression.

Michael

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