The standard allocator on Windows is pretty bad prior
to Windows Vista, and nedmalloc is better than the
modified dlmalloc provided with newer versions of the
MinGW libc.
NedMalloc stats in Git
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All results are the best result out of 3 runs. The
benchmarks have been done on different hardware, so
the repack times are not comparable.
These benchmarks are all based on 'git repack -adf'
on the Linux kernel.
XP
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MinGW Threads Total Time Speed
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3.4.2 (1T) 00:12:28.422
3.4.2 + nedmalloc (1T) 00:07:25.437 1.68x
3.4.5 (1T) 00:12:20.718
3.4.5 + nedmalloc (1T) 00:07:24.809 1.67x
4.3.3-tdm (1T) 00:12:01.843
4.3.3-tdm + nedmalloc (1T) 00:07:16.468 1.65x
4.3.3-tdm (2T) 00:07:35.062
4.3.3-tdm + nedmalloc (2T) 00:04:57.874 1.54x
Vista
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MinGW Threads Total Time Speed
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4.3.3-tdm (1T) 00:07:40.844
4.3.3-tdm + nedmalloc (1T) 00:07:17.548 1.05x
4.3.3-tdm (2T) 00:05:33.746
4.3.3-tdm + nedmalloc (2T) 00:05:27.334 1.02x
Mac Mini
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GCC Threads Total Time Speed
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i686-darwin9-4.0.1 (2T) 00:09:57.346
i686-darwin9-4.0.1+ned (2T) 00:08:51.072 1.12x
Signed-off-by: Marius Storm-Olsen <marius@trolltech.com>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Marius Storm-Olsen