From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2006 22:29:45 GMT
Subject: Re: If I were redoing git from scratch...
Message-ID: <200611042329.46556.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
In-Reply-To: <20061104191651.GC2517@spearce.org>

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.