refs_for_each_glob_ref_in()
The function `refs_for_each_glob_ref_in()` can be used to iterate
through all refs in a specific prefix with globbing. The logic to handle
this is currently hosted by `refs_for_each_glob_ref_in()`, which sets up
a callback function that knows to filter out refs that _don't_ match the
given globbing pattern.
The way we do this is somewhat inefficient though: even though the
function is expected to only yield refs in the given prefix, we still
end up iterating through _all_ references, regardless of whether or not
their name matches the given prefix.
Extend `refs_for_each_ref_ext()` so that it can handle patterns and
adapt `refs_for_each_glob_ref_in()` to use it. This means we continue to
use the same callback-based infrastructure to filter individual refs via
the globbing pattern, but we can now also use the other functionality of
the `_ext()` variant.
Most importantly, this means that we now properly handle the prefix.
This results in a performance improvement when using a prefix where a
significant majority of refs exists outside of the prefix. The following
benchmark is an extreme case, with 1 million refs that exist outside the
prefix and a single ref that exists inside it:
Benchmark 1: git rev-parse --branches=refs/heads/* (rev = HEAD~)
Time (mean ± σ): 115.9 ms ± 0.7 ms [User: 113.0 ms, System: 2.4 ms]
Range (min … max): 114.9 ms … 117.8 ms 25 runs
Benchmark 2: git rev-parse --branches=refs/heads/* (rev = HEAD)
Time (mean ± σ): 1.1 ms ± 0.1 ms [User: 0.3 ms, System: 0.7 ms]
Range (min … max): 1.0 ms … 2.3 ms 2092 runs
Summary
git rev-parse --branches=refs/heads/* (rev = HEAD) ran
107.01 ± 6.49 times faster than git rev-parse --branches=refs/heads/* (rev = HEAD~)
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Git - fast, scalable, distributed revision control system
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