Subject: [PATCH v2 4/4] p2000: add performance test for patch-mode commands

From: "Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 May 2025 14:55:30 +0000

From: Derrick Stolee <[email-masked]>

The previous three changes contributed performance improvements to 'git
apply', 'git add -p', and 'git reset -p' when using a sparse index. The
improvement to 'git apply' also improved 'git checkout -p'. Add
performance tests to demonstrate this (and to help validate that
performance remains good in the future).

In the truncated test output below, we see that the full checkout
performance changes within noise expectations, but the sparse index
cases improve 33% and then 96% for 'git add -p' and 41% and then 95% for
'git reset -p'. 'git checkout -p' improves immediatley by 91% because it
does not need any change to its builtin.

  Test                                    HEAD~4  HEAD~3       HEAD~2       HEAD~1
  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  2000.118: ... git add -p (full-v3)        0.79  0.79  +0.0%  0.82  +3.8%  0.82  +3.8%
  2000.119: ... git add -p (full-v4)        0.74  0.76  +2.7%  0.74  +0.0%  0.76  +2.7%
  2000.120: ... git add -p (sparse-v3)      1.94  1.28 -34.0%  0.07 -96.4%  0.07 -96.4%
  2000.121: ... git add -p (sparse-v4)      1.93  1.28 -33.7%  0.06 -96.9%  0.06 -96.9%
  2000.122: ... git checkout -p (full-v3)   1.18  1.18  +0.0%  1.18  +0.0%  1.19  +0.8%
  2000.123: ... git checkout -p (full-v4)   1.10  1.12  +1.8%  1.11  +0.9%  1.11  +0.9%
  2000.124: ... git checkout -p (sparse-v3) 1.31  0.11 -91.6%  0.11 -91.6%  0.11 -91.6%
  2000.125: ... git checkout -p (sparse-v4) 1.29  0.11 -91.5%  0.11 -91.5%  0.11 -91.5%
  2000.126: ... git reset -p (full-v3)      0.81  0.80  -1.2%  0.83  +2.5%  0.83  +2.5%
  2000.127: ... git reset -p (full-v4)      0.78  0.77  -1.3%  0.77  -1.3%  0.78  +0.0%
  2000.128: ... git reset -p (sparse-v3)    1.58  0.92 -41.8%  0.91 -42.4%  0.07 -95.6%
  2000.129: ... git reset -p (sparse-v4)    1.58  0.92 -41.8%  0.92 -41.8%  0.07 -95.6%

It is worth noting that if our test was more involved and had multiple
hunks to evaluate, then the time spent in 'git apply' would dominate due
to multiple index loads and writes. As it stands, we need the sparse
index improvement in 'git add -p' itself to confirm this performance
improvement.

Since the change for 'git add -i' is identical, we avoid a second test
case for that similar operation.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <[email-masked]>
---
 t/perf/p2000-sparse-operations.sh | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/t/perf/p2000-sparse-operations.sh b/t/perf/p2000-sparse-operations.sh
index 39e92b084143..aadf22bc2f0b 100755
--- a/t/perf/p2000-sparse-operations.sh
+++ b/t/perf/p2000-sparse-operations.sh
@@ -135,5 +135,8 @@ test_perf_on_all git diff-tree HEAD
 test_perf_on_all git diff-tree HEAD -- $SPARSE_CONE/a
 test_perf_on_all "git worktree add ../temp && git worktree remove ../temp"
 test_perf_on_all git check-attr -a -- $SPARSE_CONE/a
+test_perf_on_all 'echo >>a && test_write_lines y | git add -p'
+test_perf_on_all 'test_write_lines y y y | git checkout --patch -'
+test_perf_on_all 'echo >>a && git add a && test_write_lines y | git reset --patch'
 
 test_done
-- 
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