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Re: jgit performance update

From
Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
Dec 3, 2006, 22:16 UTC
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<20061203221602.GA15965@spearce.org>
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<457347E1.2020800@stephan-feder.de>
sf <sf-gmane@stephan-feder.de> wrote:
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> Shawn Pearce wrote:
> ...
> > One of the biggest annoyances has been the fact that although Java
> > 1.4 offers a way to mmap a file into the process,
> 
> Be careful with mmap:
> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4724038

Thanks. That particular bug has been of some discussion on #git before. I'm planning on making it a configuration flag in .git/config for the user to decide how much pain they want: mmap (with all its huge downsides) or read into byte[] (with all the memory footprint that requires).

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  1. Shawn PearceDec 3, 2006
  2. Robin RosenbergDec 3, 2006
  3. Jakub NarebskiDec 3, 2006
  4. Robin RosenbergDec 3, 2006
  5. Shawn PearceDec 3, 2006
  6. Shawn PearceDec 3, 2006
  7. Linus TorvaldsDec 3, 2006
  8. Jakub NarebskiDec 3, 2006
  9. Juergen StuberDec 3, 2006
  10. Robin RosenbergDec 3, 2006
  11. Jakub NarebskiDec 3, 2006
  12. Shawn PearceDec 4, 2006
  13. Juergen StuberDec 4, 2006
  14. Shawn PearceDec 3, 2006
  15. sfDec 3, 2006
  16. Shawn PearceDec 3, 2006

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