After complaining to a Linux-using friend for the n-th time that "git status" was much slower on my Snow Leopard machine than on his Linux box, I decided to look into why this is. As it turns out, most people get git binaries from http://code.google.com/p/git-osx-installer/, which are 32-bit. Switching to 64-bit binaries made git status go from 6.58s to 2.50s (mainly because this does fewer mmaps).
You can download a 64-bit binary installer from https://github.com/downloads/mihaip/git_osx_installer/git-1.7.3.3-intel-x86_64-leopard.dmg, or you can build it yourself (more details at http://blog.persistent.info/2010/12/making-git-faster-on-large-repositories.html). Mihai _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
