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These delta pointers always point to elements in the objects[] array in packing_data struct. We can only hold maximum 4G of those objects because the array size in nr_objects is uint32_t. We could use uint32_t indexes to address these elements instead of pointers. On 64-bit architecture (8 bytes per pointer) this would save 4 bytes per pointer. Convert these delta pointers to indexes. Since we need to handle NULL pointers as well, the index is shifted by one [1]. [1] This means we can only index 2^32-2 objects even though nr_objects could contain 2^32-1 objects. It should not be a problem in practice because when we grow objects[], nr_alloc would probably blow up long before nr_objects hits the wall. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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