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Projects like org.eclipse.mdt contain large XML files about 6 MiB in size. So does the Android project platform/frameworks/base. Doing a clone of either project with JGit takes forever to checkout the files into the working directory, because delta decompression tends to be very expensive as we need to constantly reposition the base stream for each copy instruction. This can be made worse by a very bad ordering of offsets, possibly due to an XML editor that doesn't preserve the order of elements in the file very well. Increasing the threshold to the same limit PackWriter uses when doing delta compression (50 MiB) permits a default configured JGit to decompress these XML file objects using the faster random-access arrays, rather than re-seeking through an inflate stream, significantly reducing checkout time after a clone. Since this new limit may be dangerously close to the JVM maximum heap size, every allocation attempt is now wrapped in a try/catch so that JGit can degrade by switching to the large object stream mode when the allocation is refused. It will run slower, but the operation will still complete. The large stream mode will run very well for big objects that aren't delta compressed, and is acceptable for delta compressed objects that are using only forward referencing copy instructions. Copies using prior offsets are still going to be horrible, and there is nothing we can do about it except increase core.streamFileThreshold. We might in the future want to consider changing the way the delta generators work in JGit and native C Git to avoid prior offsets once an object reaches a certain size, even if that causes the delta instruction stream to be slightly larger. Unfortunately native C Git won't want to do that until its also able to stream objects rather than malloc them as contiguous blocks. Change-Id: Ief7a3896afce15073e80d3691bed90c6a3897307 Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> Signed-off-by: Chris Aniszczyk <caniszczyk@gmail.com>stable-0.10
Shawn O. Pearce
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