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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx•de>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org, Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] hashmap: allow memihash computation to be continued
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2017 12:27:27 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqwpckip5c.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1702201342020.3496@virtualbox> (Johannes Schindelin's message of "Mon, 20 Feb 2017 13:43:38 +0100 (CET)")

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx•de> writes:

>> If an extra call level really matters, its "inline" equivalent in
>> the header would probably be good.
>
> Well, the hashing is supposed to be as fast as possible, so I would like
> to avoid that extra call level. However, the end result is not so pretty
> because FNV32_BASE needs to be made public (OTOH it removes more lines
> than it adds):

I think our usual answer is "can we measure the difference to
demonstrate that the overhead for an extra call matter?"

As two functions sit next to each other in a single file, the code
duplication does not bother me _that_ much.  A single liner 

    /* keep implementations of these two in sync */

in front of these two functions would not hurt, but whoever attempts
to come up with a better hash needs to stare at this file carefully
anyway, so lack of such carefulness probably wouldn't be too big an
issue, either.

But the above 8 lines are something we need to worry about after we
definitely know that we MUST have two independent functions that are
supposed to be kept in sync; a patch that makes us worry them before
we know is a premature optimization, and that bothers me even more
than the actual code duplication that can drift apart.


  reply	other threads:[~2017-02-20 20:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-14 11:31 [PATCH 0/5] A series of performance enhancements in the memihash and name-cache area Johannes Schindelin
2017-02-14 11:31 ` [PATCH 1/5] name-hash: eliminate duplicate memihash call Johannes Schindelin
2017-02-14 11:32 ` [PATCH 2/5] hashmap: allow memihash computation to be continued Johannes Schindelin
2017-02-18  5:35   ` Junio C Hamano
2017-02-20 12:43     ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-02-20 20:27       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2017-02-14 11:32 ` [PATCH 3/5] name-hash: precompute hash values during preload-index Johannes Schindelin
2017-02-18  5:47   ` Junio C Hamano
2017-02-19  0:19     ` Jeff Hostetler
2017-02-19 21:45       ` Junio C Hamano
2017-02-14 11:32 ` [PATCH 4/5] name-hash: specify initial size for istate.dir_hash table Johannes Schindelin
2017-02-14 11:32 ` [PATCH 5/5] name-hash: remember previous dir_entry during lazy_init_name_hash Johannes Schindelin
2017-02-14 22:03 ` [PATCH 0/5] A series of performance enhancements in the memihash and name-cache area Jeff King
2017-02-15 14:27   ` Jeff Hostetler
2017-02-15 16:44     ` Jeff King
2017-02-18  5:56       ` Junio C Hamano
2017-02-19  0:02         ` Jeff Hostetler
2017-02-18  5:58     ` Junio C Hamano
2017-02-18  6:29       ` Jeff King
2017-02-18 20:48         ` Junio C Hamano
2017-02-18 23:52           ` Jeff Hostetler
2017-02-19 21:50             ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-02 21:11     ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-02 21:18       ` Jeff Hostetler
2017-03-02 21:40         ` Junio C Hamano

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