Re: large files and low memory

From

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>

Date

Oct 4, 2010, 19:16 UTC

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Shawn Pearce wrote:

> This change only removes the deflate copy.  But due to the SHA-1
> consistency issue I alluded to earlier, I think we're still making a
> full copy of the file in memory before we SHA-1 it or deflate it.

But

 1) a one-pass calculation would presumably be a little (5%?) faster
 2) if there are smudge/clean filters or autocrlf involved, the
    cleaned-up file is backed by swap and this all becomes moot.