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From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
To: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Cc: git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pack-object: trim memory usage a tiny bit
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 19:04:26 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTingdhx5osnbiLVMyWaauCf1TRiMzcSC76gQRp9B@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikL8MtqFr1T=3TKA7GLKSEbyvf+6SLTT2BYehto@mail.gmail.com>

Heya,

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 19:03, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> 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

  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-07  0:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-06 17:00 [PATCH] pack-object: trim memory usage a tiny bit Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2010-08-06 23:58 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-08-07  0:03   ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2010-08-07  0:04     ` Sverre Rabbelier [this message]
2010-08-07  0:16       ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2010-08-07  0:18         ` Shawn O. Pearce
2010-08-07  0:21           ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy

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