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

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

> 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@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
>  * 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
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