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Re:The midrange computer dies by GFK_of_xmaspast on Thursday April 21, 2016 @02:33PM (#11544346)
Eric Raymond writes: "fast memory access to extremely large data sets (as in, surgery on large version-control repositories)" and I'm wondering just how "extremely large" these things are.
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Re:The midrange computer dies by psadauskas on Thursday April 21, 2016 @02:52PM (#11544467)
The last couple years he's been blogging about converting old open source CSV repositories (FreeBSD, etc...) to git. Here's a post where he talks briefly about FreeBSD being 18GB, and GCC being > 32GB: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6830
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Re:The midrange computer dies by slededit on Friday April 22, 2016 @03:53AM (#11547649)
Pretty small compared to a lot of proprietary repos.
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