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In bd98f9774e (ref-filter.c: filter & format refs in the same callback,
2023-11-14), we have introduced logic into the ref-filter subsystem that
determines whether or not we can output references iteratively instead
of first collecting all references, post-processing them and printing
them once done. This has the advantage that we don't have to store all
refs in memory and, when used with e.g. `--count=1`, that we don't have
to read all refs in the first place.
One restriction we have in place for that is that caller must not ask
for sorted refs, because there is no way to sort the refs without first
reading them all into an array. So the benefits can only be reaped when
explicitly asking for output not to be sorted.
But there is one exception here where we _can_ get away with sorting
refs while streaming: ref backends sort references returned by their
iterators in lexicographic order. So if the following conditions are all
true we can do iterative streaming:
- There must be at most a single sorting specification, as otherwise
we're not using plain lexicographic ordering.
- The sorting specification must use the "refname".
- The sorting specification must not be using any flags, like
case-insensitive sorting.
Now the resulting logic does feel quite fragile overall, which makes me
a bit uneasy. But after thinking about this for a while I couldn't find
any obvious gaps in my reasoning. Furthermore, given that lexicographic
sorting order is the default in git-for-each-ref(1), this is likely to
benefit a whole lot of usecases out there.
The following benchmark executes git-for-each-ref(1) in a crafted repo
with 1 million references:
Benchmark 1: git for-each-ref (revision = HEAD~)
Time (mean ± σ): 6.756 s ± 0.014 s [User: 3.004 s, System: 3.541 s]
Range (min … max): 6.738 s … 6.784 s 10 runs
Benchmark 2: git for-each-ref (revision = HEAD)
Time (mean ± σ): 6.479 s ± 0.017 s [User: 2.858 s, System: 3.422 s]
Range (min … max): 6.450 s … 6.519 s 10 runs
Summary
git for-each-ref (revision = HEAD)
1.04 ± 0.00 times faster than git for-each-ref (revision = HEAD~)
The change results in a slight performance improvement, but nothing that
would really stand out. Something that cannot be seen in the benchmark
though is peak memory usage, which went from 404.5MB to 68.96kB.
A more interesting benchmark is printing a single referenence with
`--count=1`:
Benchmark 1: git for-each-ref --count=1 (revision = HEAD~)
Time (mean ± σ): 6.655 s ± 0.018 s [User: 2.865 s, System: 3.576 s]
Range (min … max): 6.630 s … 6.680 s 10 runs
Benchmark 2: git for-each-ref --count=1 (revision = HEAD)
Time (mean ± σ): 8.6 ms ± 1.3 ms [User: 2.3 ms, System: 6.1 ms]
Range (min … max): 6.7 ms … 14.4 ms 266 runs
Summary
git git for-each-ref --count=1 (revision = HEAD)
770.58 ± 116.19 times faster than git for-each-ref --count=1 (revision = HEAD~)
Whereas we scaled with the number of references before, we now print the
first reference and exit immediately, which provides a massive win.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
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