On Fri, Mar 06, 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Sorry, but that's not a commit log message, so signing it off does not add > much value to the patch. I'm sorry, for some reason git format-patch is eating my commit messages (other commits appear just fine). As I'm doing this from a Windows machine, I smell CR/LF issues in msysgit. Here is a clean version: git-p4: improve performance when importing huge files by reducing the number of string concatenations while constraining memory usage. Signed-off-by: Sam Hocevar <sam@xxxxxxx> --- contrib/fast-import/git-p4 | 13 ++++++++++++- 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/contrib/fast-import/git-p4 b/contrib/fast-import/git-p4 index 3832f60..db0ea0a 100755 --- a/contrib/fast-import/git-p4 +++ b/contrib/fast-import/git-p4 @@ -984,11 +984,22 @@ class P4Sync(Command): while j < len(filedata): stat = filedata[j] j += 1 + data = [] text = '' + # Append data every 8192 chunks to 1) ensure decent performance + # by not making too many string concatenations and 2) avoid + # excessive memory usage by purging "data" often enough. p4 + # sends 4k chunks, so we should not use more than 32 MiB of + # additional memory while rebuilding the file data. while j < len(filedata) and filedata[j]['code'] in ('text', 'unicod e', 'binary'): - text += filedata[j]['data'] + data.append(filedata[j]['data']) del filedata[j]['data'] + if len(data) > 8192: + text += ''.join(data) + data = [] j += 1 + text += ''.join(data) + data = None if not stat.has_key('depotFile'): sys.stderr.write("p4 print fails with: %s\n" % repr(stat)) -- Sam. -- 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