Re: [PATCH] diff: release blobs after generating textual diff.

> söndag 06 maj 2007 skrev Nicolas Pitre:
>> On Sun, 6 May 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> 
>> > This reduces the memory pressure when dealing with many paths.
>> > 
>> > An unscientific test of running "diff-tree --stat --summary -M"
>> > between v2.6.19 and v2.6.20-rc1 in the linux kernel repository
>> > indicates that the number of minor faults are reduced by 2/3
>> > (153k vs 49k).
>> > 
>> > Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
>> > ---
>> > 
>> >  * This is still a WIP, not in the sense that it breaks anything
>> >    (it doesn't seem to), but in the sense that it is not known
>> >    if it is useful in general and would make that much of a
>> >    difference with a project much larger than the kernel.
>> 
>> This can only be good.  People are really starting to use Git with 
>> gigantic repos on limited memory hardware.
>
> This did wonders on the usually unreasonable diffs on huge
> repos. The openoffice diff mentioned in the openoffice thread
> went from 6 to ~3 minutes, and most importantly the computer
> was perfectly usable meanwhile. Git memory usage dropped from
> 1,7GB to 400MB.