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> Ah, that is in the batch mode, and you were syaing that "one request
> with multiple objects" would allow multiple object-info requests to
> be hanled efficiently even in non-batch mode.  If that was what you
> were talking about, I think that does make sense.  Thanks.

Correct, also I think you mean "buffer" mode rather than "batch" mode.

On Thu, May 5, 2022 at 12:09 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
> > I would have expected to see something like
> >
> >       start batch
> >       request 1
> >       request 2
> >       ...
> >       request 2000
> >       flush batch
> >
> > during which the other side patiently listens to our requests.  They
> > (meaning the local process that reads the above and talks to a
> > remote as needed) can coalesce the requests of the same kind
> > (e.g. going to the same remote) while buffering and optimize their
> > operation without having the caller of them to worry about it that
> > way, no?
>
> Ah, that is in the batch mode, and you were syaing that "one request
> with multiple objects" would allow multiple object-info requests to
> be hanled efficiently even in non-batch mode.  If that was what you
> were talking about, I think that does make sense.  Thanks.
>