Re: [PATCH] diff: release blobs after generating textual diff.

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: May 6, 2007, 17:03 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.99.0705061301190.24220@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <7vr6pucp9e.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Sun, 6 May 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> This reduces the memory pressure when dealing with many paths.
> 
> An unscientific test of running "diff-tree --stat --summary -M"
> between v2.6.19 and v2.6.20-rc1 in the linux kernel repository
> indicates that the number of minor faults are reduced by 2/3
> (153k vs 49k).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
> ---
> 
>  * This is still a WIP, not in the sense that it breaks anything
>    (it doesn't seem to), but in the sense that it is not known
>    if it is useful in general and would make that much of a
>    difference with a project much larger than the kernel.

This can only be good. People are really starting to use Git with gigantic repos on limited memory hardware.

Nicolas