>With some simple garbage collection, I've now gotten it to keep >memory use steady at under 900 MB. Which has the additional benefit >of speeding up the actual committing phase (from ~1.6 commits/s to >~3.9 commits/s on my machine). Committing the entirety of Pike thus >goes from ~10.7 hours to ~4.4 hours (much better, but still quite a >bit too long though...).
By rewriting the script to use git fast-import instead, it's now chugging along nicely at ~12.5 commits/s (ie ~47 minutes).
