From: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2016 19:50:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] strbuf: improve API
Message-ID: <1464810629.3988.11.camel@twopensource.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160601074218.GB14096@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Wed, 2016-06-01 at 03:42 -0400, Jeff King wrote:
>   2. Do caching tricks for strbufs used in tight loops. For example,
>      have strbuf_release() throw its buffer into a last-used cache,
> and
>      let the next strbuf_grow() use that cache entry. This cuts
> malloc()
>      out of the loop.
> 
>      You'd probably want to protect the cache with a mutex, though.


... or make the last-used cache be thread-local.