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Speed up Store.last-modified by comparing hashes instead of file contents #2335

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@zazedd zazedd commented Sep 13, 2024

This commit changes the Store.last_modified function to compare the precomputed file hashes instead of their contents, as the latter is significantly (~10 to 20x) slower. :)
(More specifically, Tree.find is way slower than Tree.find_tree)


It also changes the documentation of the function where variable n is wrongly referred to as number.

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Thanks, this provides a huge speedup for large values!

Looking at the overall algorithm used by last_modified, I believe there could be complexity explosion with fork/merge: it doesn't detect that a commit was already checked when reached from another path? I wonder if you have some ideas on how to fix this also :)

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LGTM, thx a lot for the work
There might be a small issue however, when a commit is older than it's parent, the function might missbehave.

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