Re: Mercurial 0.3 vs git benchmarks

[H. Peter Anvin]

Thomas Glanzmann wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> > Directory hashing slows down operations that do linear sweeps through 
> > the filesystem reading every single file, simply because without 
> > dir_index, there is likely to be a correlation between inode order and 
> > directory order, whereas with dir_index, readdir() returns entries in 
> > hash order.
>
>
> thank you for the awareness training. Than mutt should be slower, too.
> Maybe I should repeat that tests.

Only if you read every single file in each directory every time.  I 
thought mutt did header indexing and thus didn't need to do that.

	-hpa
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