From: Stefan Sperling <stsp@stsp.name>
Subject: Re: fix tog log view performance bug
To: gameoftrees@openbsd.org
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2019 19:14:57 +0200

On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 07:02:49PM +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> To reproduce, run tog in openbsd's
> src.git repository and search for a garbage pattern that will
> never match. Wait for tog to load all the >200000 commits.
> Moving the cursor down with 'j' should now be rather sluggish.

For giggles, I've also tested this with linux.git which has about
4 times as many commits. It works, even though the amount of memory
consumption is a bit worrying.

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE  SIZE   RES STATE     WAIT      TIME    CPU COMMAND
34631 stsp       2    0 1113M 1328M sleep/1   poll      2:28  6.84% tog


commit 4d856f72c10ecb060868ed10ff1b1453943fc6c8 [1/857677] master, origin/master, tags/v5.3
19/09/15 torvalds               Linux 5.3
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