Re: [jgit-dev] insertUnpackedObject() perf regression: j.nio.file.Files.

[Shawn Pearce <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 11:20 AM, Robin Rosenberg
<robin.rosenberg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ----- Ursprungligt meddelande -----
>> Från: "Alex Blewitt" <alex.blewitt@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Till: "Roberto Tyley" <roberto.tyley@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Kopia: jgit-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx, "robin rosenberg" <robin.rosenberg@xxxxxxxxxx>, "matthias sohn" <matthias.sohn@xxxxxxx>,
>> "christian halstrick" <christian.halstrick@xxxxxxx>
>> Skickat: torsdag, 27 aug 2015 19:43:57
>> Ämne: Re: [jgit-dev] insertUnpackedObject() perf regression: j.nio.file.Files.exists() 15x slower than
>> j.io.File.exists()
>>
>> If you have a gist or a JMH harness for performing tests I'm happy to report
>> back timings for Windows and OSX.
>>
>> > On 27 Aug 2015, at 18:38, Roberto Tyley <roberto.tyley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> > Obviously, my preference would be to remove use of the NIO call. I'm
>> > inclined to think it could be removed everywhere, from both FS_POSIX &
>> > FS_Win32, but at the very least from
>> > ObjectDirectory.insertUnpackedObject().
>
> Maybe we should make exceptions for (some) internal paths. The current
> behavior probably only (mostly?) makes sense in the working directory, so we'd need
> two exists() methods in FS.

The loose object exists test should be using java.io.File and not FS.
ObjectDirectory uses FS.resolve() to traverse symlinks to objects but
then once inside objects all 256 shard directories should be real
directories, and the object files should be real files, not dangling
symlinks. java.io.File.exists() is sufficient here, and faster.

Sounds like we could just change ObjectDirectory to use File.exists()
once its computed the File handle.

This does mean JGit cannot run ObjectDirectory code on an abstract
virtual filesystem plugged into NIO2, but I think that is fine. If you
really want to run JGit on an esoteric non-standard filesystem like
"in memory" you should look at the DFS storage backend, which has
fewer abstraction points to deal with. Or write your own from scratch.