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Once we know the number of objects in the input pack, we allocate an array of nr_objects of struct delta_entry. On x86-64, this struct is 32 bytes long. The union delta_base, which is part of struct delta_entry, provides enough space to store either ofs-delta (8 bytes) or ref-delta (20 bytes). Because ofs-delta encoding is more efficient space-wise and more performant at runtime than ref-delta encoding, Git packers try to use ofs-delta whenever possible, and it is expected that objects encoded as ref-delta are minority. In the best clone case where no ref-delta object is present, we waste (20-8) * nr_objects bytes because of this union. That's about 38MB out of 100MB for deltas[] with 3.4M objects, or 38%. deltas[] would be around 62MB without the waste. This patch attempts to eliminate that. deltas[] array is split into two: one for ofs-delta and one for ref-delta. Many functions are also duplicated because of this split. With this patch, ofs_deltas[] array takes 51MB. ref_deltas[] should remain unallocated in clone case (0 bytes). This array grows as we see ref-delta. We save about half in this case, or 25% of total bookkeeping. The saving is more than the calculation above because some padding in the old delta_entry struct is removed. ofs_delta_entry is 16 bytes, including the 4 bytes padding. That's 13MB for padding, but packing the struct could break platforms that do not support unaligned access. If someone on 32-bit is really low on memory and only deals with packs smaller than 2G, using 32-bit off_t would eliminate the padding and save 27MB on top. A note about ofs_deltas allocation. We could use ref_deltas memory allocation strategy for ofs_deltas. But that probably just adds more overhead on top. ofs-deltas are generally the majority (1/2 to 2/3) in any pack. Incremental realloc may lead to too many memcpy. And if we preallocate, say 1/2 or 2/3 of nr_objects initially, the growth rate of ALLOC_GROW() could make this array larger than nr_objects, wasting more memory. Brought-up-by: Matthew Sporleder <msporleder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Git - the stupid content tracker
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