From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 05:38:18 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Teach Git how to parse standard power of 2 suffixes. Message-ID: <7vejqgk4l1.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <20061231030119.GD5082@spearce.org> Shawn Pearce writes: > So in your test case where you thought you entered 20 pages, what you > really had was just 2 pages. We rounded 20 bytes down to 0 pages, > then forced that to a minimum of 2 pages. :-) Yes. And I found something else that is interesting. I still had 2 pages windows but reduced packedgitlimit to 256kB and re-run the same test to reproduce all merges in git.git. It still did not fail, but it took even shorter wallclock time (again, it is only 3 seconds or so out of 5 1/2 minuts, so it is probably statistically insignificant).