From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 20:26:59 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Remove more parsers
Message-ID: <7vk6ciixv0.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0601291336420.25300@iabervon.org>

I do not have objections to git-tar-tree changes, but I am
hesitant to use the tree parser in diff-tree due to its memory
retention behaviour.  We already use the commit parser in
diff-tree but I think we currently do not ask for the tree part
of the object to be parsed.  I suspect this patch would badly
interact with long-running "diff-tree --stdin", which is the
workhorse of whatchanged.  I haven't benched it though, and I'd
be happy to see the impact is proven to be negligible.