On 10/4/2017 2:10 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
Derrick Stolee <sto...@gmail.com> writes:
...
I understand that this patch on its own does not have good numbers. I
split the
patches 3 and 4 specifically to highlight two distinct changes:

Patch 3: Unroll the len loop that may inspect all files multiple times.
Patch 4: Parse less while disambiguating.

Patch 4 more than makes up for the performance hits in this patch.
Now you confused me even more.  When we read the similar table that
appears in [Patch 4/5], what does the "Base Time" column mean?
Vanilla Git with [Patch 3/5] applied?  Vanillay Git with [Patch 4/5]
alone applied?  Something else?
In PATCH 3, 4, and 5, I used the commit-by-commit diff for the perf numbers, so the "Base Time" for PATCH 4 is the time calculated when PATCH 3 is applied. The table in the [PATCH 0/5] message includes the relative change for all commits.

I recalculated the relative change for each patch related to the baseline (PATCH 2). Looking again, it appears I misspoke and PATCH 4 does include a +8% change for a fully-repacked Linux repo relative to PATCH 2. Since PATCH 5 includes an optimization targeted directly at large packfiles, the final performance gain is significant in the fully-packed cases.

It is also worth looking at the absolute times for these cases, since the fully-packed case is significantly faster than the multiple-packfile case, so the relative change impacts users less.

One final note: the improvement was clearer in test p0008.1 when the test included "sort -R" to shuffle the known OIDs. Providing OIDs in lexicographic order has had a significant effect on the performance, which does not reflect real-world usage. I removed the "sort -R" because it is a GNU-ism, but if there is a good cross-platform alternative I would be happy to replace it.

p0008.1: find_unique_abbrev() for existing objects
--------------------------------------------------

For 10 repeated tests, each checking 100,000 known objects, we find the
following results when running in a Linux VM:

| Repo  | Baseline | Patch 3 | Rel % | Patch 4 | Rel % | Patch 5 | Rel % |
|-------|----------|---------|-------|---------|-------|---------|-------|
| Git   | 0.09     | 0.06    | -33%  | 0.05    | -44%  | 0.05    | -44%  |
| Git   | 0.11     | 0.08    | -27%  | 0.08    | -27%  | 0.08    | -27%  |
| Git   | 0.09     | 0.07    | -22%  | 0.06    | -33%  | 0.06    | -33%  |
| Linux | 0.13     | 0.32    | 146%  | 0.14    | + 8%  | 0.05    | -62%  |
| Linux | 1.13     | 1.12    | - 1%  | 0.94    | -17%  | 0.88    | -22%  |
| Linux | 1.08     | 1.05    | - 3%  | 0.86    | -20%  | 0.80    | -26%  |
| VSTS  | 0.12     | 0.23    | +92%  | 0.11    | - 8%  | 0.05    | -58%  |
| VSTS  | 1.02     | 1.08    | + 6%  | 0.95    | - 7%  | 0.95    | - 7%  |
| VSTS  | 2.25     | 2.08    | - 8%  | 1.82    | -19%  | 1.93    | -14%  |

(Each repo has three versions, in order: 1 packfile, multiple packfiles, and multiple packfiles and loose objects.)

Thanks,
-Stolee

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