> As for how to estimate entropy, isn't that just a matter of feeding it
quoted text
> through zlib and compare the output size to the input size? Especially
> if we're already about to feed it through zlib anyway... In other
> words, feed (an initial part of) the data through zlib, and if the
> compression ratio so far looks good, keep going and write out the
> compressed object, otherwise abort zlib and write out the original
> object with compression level 0.

This if probably off topic now, but as the OP, I'd like to mention
that I tried setting pack.compression = 0 and it did not solve my
memory issues. So it seems to be that the packing itself that is
sucking up all the memory -- not the compression.

Thanks for all the insightful replies!

-Ken
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html