An obscure git command yields a 12% speedup, tested on the Linux kernel repo
DanielLockyer · x · 2026-11-05
Daniel Lockyer found a 12% performance improvement from a niche git command (commit-graph write with tree cache). Benchmark against the Linux kernel source: build wall time dropped from 171s to 150s (-12%), user CPU from 170s to 148s.
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