Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> writes: > David Turner <dtur...@twopensource.com> writes: > >> From: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclo...@gmail.com> >> >> Instead of reading the index from disk and worrying about disk >> corruption, the index is cached in memory (memory bit-flips happen >> too, but hopefully less often). The result is faster read. Read time >> is reduced by 70%. >> >> The biggest gain is not having to verify the trailing SHA-1, which >> takes lots of time especially on large index files.
Come to think of it, wouldn't it be far less intrusive change to just put the index on a ramdisk and skip the trailing SHA-1 verification, to obtain a similar result with the same trade off (i.e. blindly trusting memory instead of being paranoid)? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
