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triceratops on Sept 14, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Scaling Git’s garbage collection

All of these questions boil down to "pull some numbers out of your ass, then multiply (or divide) as appropriate".

saagarjha on Sept 14, 2022 [–]

This is coincidentally exactly how I guess my code will perform.

gregoryl on Sept 14, 2022 | [–]

With the resources/time most of us have, thats pretty much the peak of accuracy on performance estimates anyway.

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