Parallel dirstate.walk?

[Benoit Boissinot]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Martin Geisler <mg at aragost.com> wrote:
> So this is the idea: stat the directories in parallel. I guess this
> would be done best by replacing dirstate.walk with a osutils.walk that
> uses C threads internally before it returns a list to its caller. That
> way the threads will be hidden from sight.
>
> Does this sound crazy? Is anybody crazy enough to attempt it? :)

Not sure it's a win for the non-RAID case (or non-SSD case).
I'd except it too be highly sequential in the "regular" case (and
threading could actually hurt).

cheers,

Benoit