Re: [RFC] diff-optimizations-bytes branch: avoiding function call overhead (?)

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Johan Corveleyn <jcorvel_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Johan Corveleyn <jcorvel_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> Also, I did my measurements with a blame operation on this very large
>> file, which has ~2500 revisions. So that's 2500 diffs of a ~1,5 Mb
>> file, with say on average 1 Mb of identical prefix/suffix every time.
>> That's some 2,500,000,000 function calls.
>
> That should be: 5,000,000,000 function calls, because for every diff
> we advance prefix and suffix pointers in two files: the original one
> and the modified one.

Damn. Scratch that last mail. I'm confused. It's 2,500,000,000
function calls (each of which advances the two pointers in a "for"
loop).

(that's sleep-deprivation in action (sick child etc ...))

-- 
Johan