On Sat, 11 Aug 2007, Fernando J. Pereda wrote:
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> > 
> > What does "usable" mean? Is it still slow ("barely usable") or is it 
> > actually fast enough to be truly _nice_ to use?
> 
> Very nice to use considering my hardware is rather old. git status used
> to take >1m and it now takes ~3s and git commit takes ~7s while it used
> to take >1m too. So it makes things nice to use and I guess things are
> MUCH better on faster hardware.

Oh, ok. Having a 7s commit sounds fine - certainly not instantaneous, but 
it doesn't sound too painful. Certainly not compared to what people live 
with normally in some other environments, at least.

Thanks go to moe for just giving a trivial script to reproduce the 
performance anomaly. It wasn't that hard to fix once there was a trivial 
and unambiguous test case.

		Linus
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