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6LLvveMx2koXfwn on June 8, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 ...

The point is the performance hit had nothing to do with dupe count (which could be zero), and everything to do with ref count.

nayak on June 9, 2025 [–]

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