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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] reftable: introduce macros to grow arrays
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2024 08:30:32 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqbk902llj.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZbtIQ3Hk6Mgvkv4j@tanuki> (Patrick Steinhardt's message of "Thu, 1 Feb 2024 08:29:07 +0100")

Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> writes:

> Very good point indeed. I don't think peak memory usage is really all
> that helpful either because the problem is not that we are allocating
> arrays that we keep around all the time, but many small arrays which are
> short lived. So what is telling is the total number of bytes we end up
> allocating:

True.  sum of requested sizes to all the calls to malloc() and
friends to allocate, ignoring what gets free()d in between, is what
would show how much we try to consume.

> Allocating 21 times as many bytes with our default growth factor should
> be a much more compelling argument why we don't actually want to use it
> compared to the 2% speedup.

;-).


  reply	other threads:[~2024-02-01 16:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-01-31  8:00 [PATCH 0/9] reftable: code style improvements Patrick Steinhardt
2024-01-31  8:01 ` [PATCH 1/9] reftable: introduce macros to grow arrays Patrick Steinhardt
2024-01-31 17:44   ` Eric Sunshine
2024-01-31 20:35   ` Junio C Hamano
2024-02-01  7:29     ` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-02-01 16:30       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2024-01-31  8:01 ` [PATCH 2/9] reftable: introduce macros to allocate arrays Patrick Steinhardt
2024-01-31  8:01 ` [PATCH 3/9] reftable/stack: fix parameter validation when compacting range Patrick Steinhardt
2024-01-31  8:01 ` [PATCH 4/9] reftable/stack: index segments with `size_t` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-01-31  8:01 ` [PATCH 5/9] reftable/stack: use `size_t` to track stack slices during compaction Patrick Steinhardt
2024-01-31  8:01 ` [PATCH 6/9] reftable/stack: use `size_t` to track stack length Patrick Steinhardt
2024-01-31  8:01 ` [PATCH 7/9] reftable/merged: refactor seeking of records Patrick Steinhardt
2024-01-31 17:55   ` Eric Sunshine
2024-01-31  8:01 ` [PATCH 8/9] reftable/merged: refactor initialization of iterators Patrick Steinhardt
2024-01-31  8:01 ` [PATCH 9/9] reftable/record: improve semantics when initializing records Patrick Steinhardt
2024-02-01  7:32 ` [PATCH v2 0/9] reftable: code style improvements Patrick Steinhardt
2024-02-01  7:32   ` [PATCH v2 1/9] reftable: introduce macros to grow arrays Patrick Steinhardt
2024-02-01  7:32   ` [PATCH v2 2/9] reftable: introduce macros to allocate arrays Patrick Steinhardt
2024-02-05 15:48     ` Karthik Nayak
2024-02-06  6:10       ` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-02-01  7:33   ` [PATCH v2 3/9] reftable/stack: fix parameter validation when compacting range Patrick Steinhardt
2024-02-01 16:15     ` Toon Claes
2024-02-02  5:21       ` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-02-01  7:33   ` [PATCH v2 4/9] reftable/stack: index segments with `size_t` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-02-01  7:33   ` [PATCH v2 5/9] reftable/stack: use `size_t` to track stack slices during compaction Patrick Steinhardt
2024-02-01  7:33   ` [PATCH v2 6/9] reftable/stack: use `size_t` to track stack length Patrick Steinhardt
2024-02-01  7:33   ` [PATCH v2 7/9] reftable/merged: refactor seeking of records Patrick Steinhardt
2024-02-01  7:33   ` [PATCH v2 8/9] reftable/merged: refactor initialization of iterators Patrick Steinhardt
2024-02-01  7:33   ` [PATCH v2 9/9] reftable/record: improve semantics when initializing records Patrick Steinhardt
2024-02-06  6:35 ` [PATCH v3 0/9] reftable: code style improvements Patrick Steinhardt
2024-02-06  6:35   ` [PATCH v3 1/9] reftable: introduce macros to grow arrays Patrick Steinhardt
2024-02-06  6:35   ` [PATCH v3 2/9] reftable: introduce macros to allocate arrays Patrick Steinhardt
2024-02-06  6:35   ` [PATCH v3 3/9] reftable/stack: fix parameter validation when compacting range Patrick Steinhardt
2024-02-06  6:35   ` [PATCH v3 4/9] reftable/stack: index segments with `size_t` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-02-06  6:35   ` [PATCH v3 5/9] reftable/stack: use `size_t` to track stack slices during compaction Patrick Steinhardt
2024-02-06  6:35   ` [PATCH v3 6/9] reftable/stack: use `size_t` to track stack length Patrick Steinhardt
2024-02-06  6:35   ` [PATCH v3 7/9] reftable/merged: refactor seeking of records Patrick Steinhardt
2024-02-06  6:35   ` [PATCH v3 8/9] reftable/merged: refactor initialization of iterators Patrick Steinhardt
2024-02-06  6:35   ` [PATCH v3 9/9] reftable/record: improve semantics when initializing records Patrick Steinhardt
2024-02-06  9:10   ` [PATCH v3 0/9] reftable: code style improvements Karthik Nayak

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