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I can't wait to hear Linus' reaction. He about blew a gasket when someone wanted to use C++ in the main git project. Then again, this is a wholly separate pro
by hamburglar 13y ago
I can't wait to hear Linus' reaction. He about blew a gasket when someone wanted to use C++ in the main git project. Then again, this is a wholly separate project so he might just shrug and move on, but I still think he might have some colorful comments.
I don't personally buy his claims that performance is so critical it needs to be written in C. I'd be interested in any speed comparisons the js-git authors might have made. It would surprise me if js-git was anywhere near as fast, but I can't imagine it's impossible to make it at least usable.
- sam152 13y agoSpeed is definitely a huge benefit of git. When you use it heavily every day, you become thankful that cloning, merging, branching etc is very fast. If it were a couple of seconds slower for each of these tasks, I think it would make a big difference.
- hamburglar 13y agoOf course, but whether a JS implementation is necessarily a couple seconds slower for typical (or even extreme) scenarios remains to be seen.