From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 20:13:07 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Hold an 'unsigned long' chunk of the sha1 in obj_hash
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Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch> writes:

> So we take a slightly different approach, and trade some memory for
> better cache locality.

Interesting.  It feels somewhat bait-and-switch to reveal that the
above "some" turns out to be "double" later, but the resulting code
does not look too bad, and the numbers do not look insignificant.