[ET Trac] [Einstein Toolkit] #1900: Formaline circumvents git's file change caching

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#1900: Formaline circumvents git's file change caching
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  Reporter:  rhaas                  |       Owner:                     
      Type:  defect                 |      Status:  new                
  Priority:  minor                  |   Milestone:                     
 Component:  EinsteinToolkit thorn  |     Version:  development version
Resolution:                         |    Keywords:  Formaline          
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Comment (by rhaas):

 A workaround is probably simple (since the change itself is simple). I am
 not sure how large the slowdown is because each time a file changes (and
 thus all files are currently re-hashed) the tarball is also recreated
 causing all files to be read and tar-gzipped. It is possible that the
 slowdown is more noticeable in cases where updating the git repo and
 creating the tarballs happens at different times since the OS caches have
 been flushed. For cases where updating the git repo happens just after
 creating the tarball then all files should still be in cache and any
 slowdown would be due to increased CPU load which should be much less than
 due to IO.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.einsteintoolkit.org/ticket/1900#comment:6>
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