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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum•mit.edu>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] shorten_unambiguous_ref(): tighten up pointer arithmetic
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2014 15:01:48 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqtxdc92ub.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1389192220-13913-4-git-send-email-mhagger@alum.mit.edu> (Michael Haggerty's message of "Wed, 8 Jan 2014 15:43:40 +0100")

Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum•mit.edu> writes:

> As long as we're being pathologically stingy with mallocs, we might as
> well do the math right and save 6 (!) bytes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum•mit.edu>
> ---
> It is left to the reader to show how another 7 bytes could be saved
> (11 bytes on a 64-bit architecture!)
>
> It probably wouldn't kill performance to use a string_list here
> instead.
>
>  refs.c | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/refs.c b/refs.c
> index ef9cdea..63b3a71 100644
> --- a/refs.c
> +++ b/refs.c
> @@ -3351,10 +3351,10 @@ char *shorten_unambiguous_ref(const char *refname, int strict)
>  		size_t total_len = 0;
>  		size_t offset = 0;
>  
> -		/* the rule list is NULL terminated, count them first */
> +		/* the rule list is NUL terminated, count them first */

I think this _is_ wrong; it talks about the NULL termination of the
ref_rev_parse_rules[] array, not each string that is an element of
the array being NUL terminated.

Output from "git grep -e refname_match -e ref_rev_parse_rules"
suggests me that we actually could make ref_rev_parse_rules[] a
file-scope static to refs.c, remove its NULL termination and convert
all the iterators of the array to use ARRAY_SIZE() on it, after
dropping the third parameter to refname_match().  That way, we do
not have to count them first here.

But that is obviously a separate topic.

>  		for (nr_rules = 0; ref_rev_parse_rules[nr_rules]; nr_rules++)
> -			/* no +1 because strlen("%s") < strlen("%.*s") */
> -			total_len += strlen(ref_rev_parse_rules[nr_rules]);
> +			/* -2 for strlen("%.*s") - strlen("%s"); +1 for NUL */
> +			total_len += strlen(ref_rev_parse_rules[nr_rules]) - 2 + 1;
>  
>  		scanf_fmts = xmalloc(nr_rules * sizeof(char *) + total_len);

  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-09 23:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-08 14:43 [PATCH 0/3] Generate scanf_fmts more simply Michael Haggerty
2014-01-08 14:43 ` [PATCH 1/3] shorten_unambiguous_ref(): introduce a new local variable Michael Haggerty
2014-01-08 14:43 ` [PATCH 2/3] gen_scanf_fmt(): delete function and use snprintf() instead Michael Haggerty
2014-01-09 22:56   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-01-08 14:43 ` [PATCH 3/3] shorten_unambiguous_ref(): tighten up pointer arithmetic Michael Haggerty
2014-01-09 23:01   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2014-01-10 14:16     ` Michael Haggerty
2014-01-10 18:03       ` Junio C Hamano
2014-01-14  3:16         ` [PATCH] refname_match(): always use the rules in ref_rev_parse_rules Michael Haggerty
2014-01-14 22:16           ` Junio C Hamano
2014-01-15 16:54             ` Michael Haggerty

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