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

[Eric Seidel]

FYI, my git status runs on my Mac Book Pro were an average of 9.2 seconds
(git version 1.7.1, git-osx-installer) before installing Mihai's 64bit build
(git version 1.7.3.3), and were 6.0 seconds after.

-eric

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Eric Seidel <eric at webkit.org> wrote:

> I've posted a patch to make webkit-patch warn users when they're on a
> 64-bit system with a 32-bit git:
> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50715
>
> 4 seconds on every git status is huge.  webkit-patch upload has to run at
> least 3 git status commands (due to expecting files to change on disk during
> operation), so this means a savings of 12 seconds on your machine!
>
> -eric
>
> On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 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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