> Most svn side operations create subpools for loops that may allocate > per-iteration memory due to calls to other functions, etc, and clear it > each iteration to avoid such per iteration allocations become too large. > Some don't.
FWIW, the first (and only) time I tried to do a svn diff on lots of files (about 700), svn diff never returned: my machine started to swap and be unresponsive like hell, and I had a very hard time hitting ^C to stop it. This was svn 1.2.3, dunno if svn 1.3.0 is better in this area, but it would certainly be good to fix this behavior. Currently, I have to do a 'for' loop in sh to work around this trivial issue, which is certainly annoying, since I do use svn diff a lot. Arno
