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Re: If I were redoing git from scratch...

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Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Date
Nov 4, 2006, 22:29 UTC
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lördag 04 november 2006 20:16 skrev Shawn Pearce:
> But trying to abstractly represent an object in Java the same
> way that it is represented in Git costs a huge amount of memory.
> Java is at least 16 bytes of overhead per object, before you get to
> store anything in it.

The overhead is eigth bytes per object on a 32-bit platform and 16 on a 64-bit platform for Sun's JDK. The granularity is eight bytes in both cases.

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