Re: [PATCH v2 5/6] p5313: add size comparison test

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"Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> From: Derrick Stolee <stolee@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> As custom options are added to 'git pack-objects' and 'git repack' to
> adjust how compression is done, use this new performance test script to
> demonstrate their effectiveness in performance and size.
>
> The recently-added --full-name-hash option swaps the default name-hash
> algorithm with one that attempts to uniformly distribute the hashes
> based on the full path name instead of the last 16 characters.
>
> This has a dramatic effect on full repacks for repositories with many
> versions of most paths. It can have a negative impact on cases such as
> pushing a single change.
>
> This can be seen by running pt5313 on the open source fluentui
> repository [1]. Most commits will have this kind of output for the thin
> and big pack cases, though certain commits (such as [2]) will have
> problematic thin pack size for other reasons.
>
> [1] https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui
> [2] a637a06df05360ce5ff21420803f64608226a875
>
> Checked out at the parent of [2], I see the following statistics:
>
> Test                                           this tree
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> 5313.2: thin pack                              0.02(0.01+0.01)
> 5313.3: thin pack size                                    1.1K
> 5313.4: thin pack with --full-name-hash        0.02(0.01+0.00)
> 5313.5: thin pack size with --full-name-hash              3.0K
> 5313.6: big pack                               1.65(3.35+0.24)
> 5313.7: big pack size                                    58.0M
> 5313.8: big pack with --full-name-hash         1.53(2.52+0.18)
> 5313.9: big pack size with --full-name-hash              57.6M
> 5313.10: repack                                176.52(706.60+3.53)
> 5313.11: repack size                                    446.7K
> 5313.12: repack with --full-name-hash          37.47(134.18+3.06)
> 5313.13: repack size with --full-name-hash              183.1K
>
> Note that this demonstrates a 3x size _increase_ in the case that
> simulates a small "git push". The size change is neutral on the case of
> pushing the difference between HEAD and HEAD~1000.
>
> However, the full repack case is both faster and more efficient.

Nice.

> Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  t/perf/p5313-pack-objects.sh | 71 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 71 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100755 t/perf/p5313-pack-objects.sh

"wc -c" -> "test_file_size" or "test-tool path-utils file-size"?




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