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Re: Performance issues with using local-file/interned-file/add-to-store


From: Ludovic Courtès
Subject: Re: Performance issues with using local-file/interned-file/add-to-store
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 09:58:24 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2 (gnu/linux)

Morning!

Christopher Baines <address@hidden> skribis:

> There does seem to be an intersection between the pipelining
> requirements for computing the store file name, and the potential to
> use that name in working out if the add-to-store even needs to happen.
>
> Maybe computing the store file name for large files, and using that to
> avoid expensive add-to-store calls is a good starting point?

Yes, though we’d have to check whether that really improves performance
since it’d have to read the whole file in order to compute its hash.

Ludo’.



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