From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:33:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC Patch] Preventing corrupt objects from entering the repository
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0802101929310.2732@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <7vmyq8cqfn.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> mkoegler@auto.tuwien.ac.at (Martin Koegler) writes:
> 
> > This patch adds a cache to keep the object data in memory. The delta
> > resolving code must also search in the cache.
> 
> I have to wonder what the memory pressure in real-life usage
> will be like.

FWIW, I don't like this idea.

I'm struggling to find ways to improve performances of 
pack-objects/index-pack with those large repositories that are becoming 
more common (i.e. GCC, OOO, Mozilla, etc.)  Anything that increase 
memory usage isn't very welcome IMHO.


Nicolas