From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 19:45:02 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sha1_file: don't malloc the whole compressed result when writing out objects
Message-ID: <7vd3zys79d.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1002202323500.1946@xanadu.home>

Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> writes:

> I think this is worth doing independently of the paranoid mode being 
> discussed.

While I agree it might be worth doing, I can see that you really hate
"paranoia".  Now your loop is letting deflate() decide how much it happens
to like to consume in a given round, it is much trickier to plug the
paranoia in without majorly rewriting the loop this patch introduces.