söndag 06 maj 2007 skrev Nicolas Pitre: > 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. This did wonders on the usually unreasonable diffs on huge repos. The openoffice diff mentioned in the openoffice thread went from 6 to ~3 minutes, and most importantly the computer was perfectly usable meanwhile. Git memory usage dropped from 1,7GB to 400MB. A more reasonable test diffing against a recent branch , master vs v33M4-patches, in the eclipse repo some of you have didn't gain much in performance, but memory usage dropped from 700MB to a peak just under 400MB, which makes a huge difference in responsiveness for the other applications that I have, since they were not swapped out during the diff. -- robin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html