optimize diffcore-delta by sorting hash entries.
Here's a test-patch. I don't guarantee anything, except that when I did
the timings I also did a "wc" on the result, and they matched..
Before:
[torvalds@woody linux]$ time git diff -l0 --stat -C v2.6.22.. | wc
7104 28574 438020
real 0m10.526s
user 0m10.401s
sys 0m0.136s
After:
[torvalds@woody linux]$ time ~/git/git diff -l0 --stat -C v2.6.22.. | wc
7104 28574 438020
real 0m8.876s
user 0m8.761s
sys 0m0.128s
but the diff is fairly simple, so if somebody will go over it and say
whether it's likely to be *correct* too, that 15% may well be worth it.
[ Side note, without rename detection, that diff takes just under three
seconds for me, so in that sense the improvement to the rename detection
itself is larger than the overall 15% - it brings the cost of just
rename detection from 7.5s to 5.9s, which would be on the order of just
over a 20% performance improvement. ]
Hmm. The patch depends on half-way subtle issues like the fact that the
hashtables are guaranteed to not be full => we're guaranteed to have zero
counts at the end => we don't need to do any steenking iterator count in
the loop. A few comments might in order.
Linus