Log view is slow

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Load a revision history, ex: 
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+log/master/chrome/browser/safe_b
rowsing/safe_browsing_service.h
or 
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+log/master/third_party/hwcplus/i
nclude/cutils/log.h

What is the expected output? 
Page loads quickly, within a few seconds at most.

What do you see instead?
Takes about 60 seconds for a file with a reasonable history, and even still 
over 30 seconds for a file with only one revision.

Please provide any additional information below.

From 
https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/chromium-dev/500gTr9xVf8:
"The gerrit team has mentioned that they might be able to leverage the blame 
cache for the purpose of generating the log view, but I don't think they have 
done any work on it."

Original issue reported on code.google.com by mattm@chromium.org on 18 Jun 2014 at 11:12

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I'm not sure what you mean by a "reasonable history".

$ time git log --oneline master -- 
chrome/browser/safe_browsing/safe_browsing_service.h | wc -l
134
git log --oneline master --   7.72s user 0.17s system 99% cpu 7.927 total
wc -l  0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 7.927 total

That's on my reasonably fast workstation with a hot disk cache. Unfortunately 
googlesource.com slowdowns of 2x-10x are par for the course on _every_ git 
operation. It just happens that many git operations are so fast you don't 
notice.

We've put substantial effort into caching blame results but have done nothing 
for file logs. Don't mind leaving this bug open but this is not currently on 
our roadmap.

Original comment by dborowitz@google.com on 18 Jun 2014 at 11:20

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Issue 57 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by dborowitz@google.com on 18 Jun 2014 at 11:33

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Original comment by benhe...@google.com on 19 Jun 2014 at 11:23

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hmm, this is something that I use more than blame. It's critical that this is 
fast, since we need to use this often during our day to track down regressions 
and other tasks. I haven't tried to use it on gitiles since I had presumed it 
would be fast.

@dborowitz: by "reasonable", we're comparing it to viewvc.

Original comment by jam@chromium.org on 27 Jun 2014 at 2:58

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+1 to this being a major part of Chromium development workflow.

Original comment by pkasting@chromium.org on 27 Jun 2014 at 5:15

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https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/58913 is a bandaid until we can work 
through the necessary core changes to git to improve log of a file.

Original comment by dborowitz@google.com on 31 Jul 2014 at 6:30

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We have integrated git into a wiki-style transcription editing system, and when 
the user wishes to see the history log for the transcriptions, it can take 
minutes to pull up the log.  Would really appreciate this being moved up in 
priority.

Original comment by scribe...@gmail.com on 7 Oct 2014 at 2:47