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On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 10:58:45AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Somebody cares to explain why this threashold number has to be different
> per platform in the first place? 

I really don't know. I vaguely remember someone claim that performance on
Windows suffered from many loose objects more than on other platforms. I
can't find any discussion of it though.