fast-export: do not load blob objects twice

When fast-export wants to export a blob object, it first calls parse_object to get a "struct object" and check whether we have already shown the object. If we haven't shown it, we then use read_sha1_file to pull it from disk and write it out. That means we load each blob from disk twice: once for parse_object to find its type and check its sha1, and a second time when we actually output it. We can drop this to a single load by using lookup_object to check the SHOWN flag, and then checking the signature on and outputting a single buffer. This provides modest speedups on git.git (best-of-five, "git fast-export HEAD >/dev/null"): [before] [after] real 0m14.347s real 0m13.780s user 0m14.084s user 0m13.620s sys 0m0.208s sys 0m0.100s and somewhat more on more blob-heavy repos (this is a repository full of media files): [before] [after] real 0m52.236s real 0m44.451s user 0m50.568s user 0m43.000s sys 0m1.536s sys 0m1.284s Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Jeff King committed Mar 17, 2013 at 04:38 UTC 30b939c33ad5b8a9dfbe3fe5aafc36d89c40409f
1 file changed +10 -6
builtin/fast-export.c
+10 -6
@@ -119,6 +119,7 @@ static void export_blob(const unsigned char *sha1)
119 enum object_type type;
120 char *buf;
121 struct object *object;
122 + int eaten;
123
124 if (no_data)
125 return;
@@ -126,16 +127,18 @@ static void export_blob(const unsigned char *sha1)
127 if (is_null_sha1(sha1))
128 return;
129
129 - object = parse_object(sha1);
130 - if (!object)
131 - die ("Could not read blob %s", sha1_to_hex(sha1));
132 -
133 - if (object->flags & SHOWN)
130 + object = lookup_object(sha1);
131 + if (object && object->flags & SHOWN)
132 return;
133
134 buf = read_sha1_file(sha1, &type, &size);
135 if (!buf)
136 die ("Could not read blob %s", sha1_to_hex(sha1));
137 + if (check_sha1_signature(sha1, buf, size, typename(type)) < 0)
138 + die("sha1 mismatch in blob %s", sha1_to_hex(sha1));
139 + object = parse_object_buffer(sha1, type, size, buf, &eaten);
140 + if (!object)
141 + die("Could not read blob %s", sha1_to_hex(sha1));
142
143 mark_next_object(object);
144
@@ -147,7 +150,8 @@ static void export_blob(const unsigned char *sha1)
150 show_progress();
151
152 object->flags |= SHOWN;
150 - free(buf);
153 + if (!eaten)
154 + free(buf);
155 }
156
157 static int depth_first(const void *a_, const void *b_)