From: Sverre Rabbelier Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2010 00:04:26 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] pack-object: trim memory usage a tiny bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Heya, On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 19:03, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote: > struct object_entry is allocated for every object to be packed. So if > you do a clone on linux-2.6, you would need 1.6M of those structs, 88 > bytes each. I cut 8 bytes from each of them. Sure, that was clear enough. But _how_? What needs to be done to retain this? Are there any downsides? -- Cheers, Sverre Rabbelier