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Probably very, very quickly. git-format-patch is very fast; all it has to do is diff the files involved in each commit, which is already heavily optimized. No s

by db48x 5y ago

Probably very, very quickly. git-format-patch is very fast; all it has to do is diff the files involved in each commit, which is already heavily optimized. No syntax highlighting (your email program can do that if you want it), or line numbering (ditto).

bonzini 5y ago
Don't discount the heaviness of rendering the HTML on the client, too!
db48x 5y ago
61.65 seconds to create all 2,298 emails on my computer, with the repository on spinning rust. That’s about one fortieth of a second each on average.