Re: [PATCH v6 06/13] pkt-line: add functions to read/write flush terminated packet streams

On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 3:31 PM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

What is wrong about that?  4*80k = 320kB overhead for length fields
to transfer 5GB worth of data?  I do not think it is worth worrying
about it.

But I am more surprised by seeing that "why not a single huge
packet" suggestion immediately after you talked about "without the
possibility to intervene".  They do not seem to be remotely related;
in fact, they are going into opposite directions.

Puzzled.

Stefan's argument to me is thus "If we're already going to ignore
sideband packets here, why not go all the way and make variable length
packets and send a single packet of a maximum length? Doing thus will
solve some set of future problems nicely and makes this code easier."

I'm not sure I agree myself, but that's the logic as I understand it.