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| author |  https://id.koumbit.net/anarcat <https://id.koumbit.net/anarcat@web> | 2015-02-13 15:33:54 +0000 |
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| committer |  admin <admin@branchable.com> | 2015-02-13 15:33:54 +0000 |
| commit | 43d2939ebb4b0a00db17cb6e39c85ed3f8dde2f9 (patch) | |
| tree | 2d7b051c8a4c9128781a2695114b769c78a30d25 /doc | |
| parent | fe48a226d11160dbd8f50b7918adae0914e634bf (diff) | |
lookupkey = readlink $ basename?
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/forum/optimising_lookupkey.mdwn | 5 |
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diff --git a/doc/forum/optimising_lookupkey.mdwn b/doc/forum/optimising_lookupkey.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b8e4a0353 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/optimising_lookupkey.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +to work around [[forum/original_filename_on_s3/]], i need to get the key from a file, and i'm not within the git-annex process. i know there's `git annex lookupkey $FILE`, but that incurs significant overhead because the whole git annex runtime needs to fire up. in my tests, this takes around 25ms on average. + +could i optimise this by simply doing a `readlink` call on the git checkout? it sure looks like `readlink | basename` is all I really need, and that can probably be done below 10ms (4ms in my tests). how reliable are those links anyways, and is that what lookupkey does? + +thanks. --[[anarcat]] |