[webkit-dev] Tip: Use 64-bit git binaries on Mac OS X

[Eric Seidel]

Can we evangelize the code.google.com project?
On Dec 7, 2010 4:04 PM, "Mihai Parparita" <mihaip at chromium.org> wrote:
> After complaining to a Linux-using friend for the n-th time that "git
> status" was much slower on my Snow Leopard machine than on his Linux
> box, I decided to look into why this is. As it turns out, most people
> get git binaries from http://code.google.com/p/git-osx-installer/,
> which are 32-bit. Switching to 64-bit binaries made git status go from
> 6.58s to 2.50s (mainly because this does fewer mmaps).
>
> You can download a 64-bit binary installer from
>
https://github.com/downloads/mihaip/git_osx_installer/git-1.7.3.3-intel-x86_64-leopard.dmg
,
> or you can build it yourself (more details at
>
http://blog.persistent.info/2010/12/making-git-faster-on-large-repositories.html
).
>
> Mihai
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