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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: "René Scharfe" <l.s.r@web.de>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	Rohit Ashiwal via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Rohit Ashiwal <rohit.ashiwal265@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] archive: avoid spawning `gzip`
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2019 17:25:39 -0400 (DST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1904291720120.45@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45afd432-9e45-ea76-aa1b-e8cd1264e3a0@web.de>

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Hi René,


On Sat, 27 Apr 2019, René Scharfe wrote:

> Am 27.04.19 um 11:59 schrieb René Scharfe:> Am 26.04.19 um 16:51 schrieb
> Johannes Schindelin:
> >>
> >> On Mon, 15 Apr 2019, Jeff King wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Sun, Apr 14, 2019 at 12:01:10AM +0200, René Scharfe wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Doing compression in its own thread may be a good idea.
> >>>
> >>> Yeah. It might even make the patch simpler, since I'd expect it to
> >>> be implemented with start_async() and a descriptor, making it look
> >>> just like a gzip pipe to the caller. :)
> >>
> >> Sadly, it does not really look like it is simpler.
> >
> > I have to agree -- at least I was unable to pull off the stdout
> > plumbing trick.
>
> The simplest solution is of course to not touch the archive code.

We could do that, of course, and we could avoid adding a new command that
we have to support for eternity by introducing a command mode for `git
archive` instead (think: `git archive --gzip -9`), and marking that
command mode clearly as an internal implementation detail.

But since the performance is still not quite on par with `gzip`, I would
actually rather not, and really, just punt on that one, stating that
people interested in higher performance should use `pigz`.

And who knows, maybe nobody will complain at all about the performance?
It's not like `gzip` is really, really fast (IIRC LZO blows gzip out of
the water, speed-wise).

And if we get "bug" reports about this, we

1) have a very easy workaround:

	git config --global archive.tgz.command 'gzip -cn'

2) could always implement a pigz-like multi-threading solution.

I strongly expect a YAGNI here, though.

Ciao,
Dscho

  reply	other threads:[~2019-04-29 21:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-12 23:04 [PATCH 0/2] Avoid spawning gzip in git archive Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-04-12 23:04 ` [PATCH 1/2] archive: replace write_or_die() calls with write_block_or_die() Rohit Ashiwal via GitGitGadget
2019-04-13  1:34   ` Jeff King
2019-04-13  5:51     ` Junio C Hamano
2019-04-14  4:36       ` Rohit Ashiwal
2019-04-26 14:29       ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-04-26 23:44         ` Junio C Hamano
2019-04-29 21:32           ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-05-01 18:09             ` Jeff King
2019-05-02 20:29               ` René Scharfe
2019-05-05  5:25               ` Junio C Hamano
2019-05-06  5:07                 ` Jeff King
2019-04-14  4:34     ` Rohit Ashiwal
2019-04-14 10:33       ` Junio C Hamano
2019-04-26 14:28     ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-05-01 18:07       ` Jeff King
2019-04-12 23:04 ` [PATCH 2/2] archive: avoid spawning `gzip` Rohit Ashiwal via GitGitGadget
2019-04-13  1:51   ` Jeff King
2019-04-13 22:01     ` René Scharfe
2019-04-15 21:35       ` Jeff King
2019-04-26 14:51         ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-04-27  9:59           ` René Scharfe
2019-04-27 17:39             ` René Scharfe
2019-04-29 21:25               ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2019-05-01 17:45                 ` René Scharfe
2019-05-01 18:18                   ` Jeff King
2019-06-10 10:44                     ` René Scharfe
2019-06-13 19:16                       ` Jeff King
2019-04-13 22:16     ` brian m. carlson
2019-04-15 21:36       ` Jeff King
2019-04-26 14:54       ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-05-02 20:20         ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-05-03 20:49           ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-05-03 20:52             ` Jeff King
2019-04-26 14:47     ` Johannes Schindelin
     [not found] ` <pull.145.v2.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
     [not found]   ` <4ea94a8784876c3a19e387537edd81a957fc692c.1556321244.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
2019-05-02 20:29     ` [PATCH v2 3/4] archive: optionally use zlib directly for gzip compression René Scharfe
     [not found]   ` <ac2b2488a1b42b3caf8a84594c48eca796748e59.1556321244.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
2019-05-02 20:30     ` [PATCH v2 2/4] archive-tar: mark RECORDSIZE/BLOCKSIZE as unsigned René Scharfe
2019-05-08 11:45       ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-05-08 23:04         ` Jeff King
2019-05-09 14:06           ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-05-09 18:38             ` Jeff King
2019-05-10 17:18               ` René Scharfe
2019-05-10 21:20                 ` Jeff King
2022-06-12  6:00 ` [PATCH v3 0/5] Avoid spawning gzip in git archive René Scharfe
2022-06-12  6:03   ` [PATCH v3 1/5] archive: rename archiver data field to filter_command René Scharfe
2022-06-12  6:05   ` [PATCH v3 2/5] archive-tar: factor out write_block() René Scharfe
2022-06-12  6:08   ` [PATCH v3 3/5] archive-tar: add internal gzip implementation René Scharfe
2022-06-13 19:10     ` Junio C Hamano
2022-06-12  6:18   ` [PATCH v3 4/5] archive-tar: use OS_CODE 3 (Unix) for internal gzip René Scharfe
2022-06-12  6:19   ` [PATCH v3 5/5] archive-tar: use internal gzip by default René Scharfe
2022-06-13 21:55     ` Junio C Hamano
2022-06-14 11:27       ` Johannes Schindelin
2022-06-14 15:47         ` René Scharfe
2022-06-14 15:56           ` René Scharfe
2022-06-14 16:29           ` Johannes Schindelin
2022-06-14 20:04             ` René Scharfe
2022-06-15 16:41               ` Junio C Hamano
2022-06-14 11:28   ` [PATCH v3 0/5] Avoid spawning gzip in git archive Johannes Schindelin
2022-06-14 20:05     ` René Scharfe
2022-06-30 18:55       ` Johannes Schindelin
2022-07-01 16:05         ` Johannes Schindelin
2022-07-01 16:27           ` Jeff King
2022-07-01 17:47             ` Junio C Hamano
2022-06-15 16:53 ` [PATCH v4 0/6] " René Scharfe
2022-06-15 16:58   ` [PATCH v4 1/6] archive: update format documentation René Scharfe
2022-06-15 16:59   ` [PATCH v4 2/6] archive: rename archiver data field to filter_command René Scharfe
2022-06-15 17:01   ` [PATCH v4 3/6] archive-tar: factor out write_block() René Scharfe
2022-06-15 17:02   ` [PATCH v4 4/6] archive-tar: add internal gzip implementation René Scharfe
2022-06-15 20:32     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-06-16 18:55       ` René Scharfe
2022-06-24 11:13         ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-06-24 20:24           ` René Scharfe
2022-06-15 17:04   ` [PATCH v4 5/6] archive-tar: use OS_CODE 3 (Unix) for internal gzip René Scharfe
2022-06-15 17:05   ` [PATCH v4 6/6] archive-tar: use internal gzip by default René Scharfe

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