Re: [PATCH/RFC v1 0/5] add strbuf_set operations

> On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Jeremiah Mahler <jmmahler@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Currently, the data in a strbuf is modified using add operations.  To
> > set the buffer to some data a reset must be performed before an add.
> >
> >   strbuf_reset(buf);
> >   strbuf_add(buf, cb.buf.buf, cb.buf.len);
> >
> > And this is a common sequence of operations with 70 occurrences found in
> > the current source code.  This includes all the different variations
> > (add, addf, addstr, addbuf, addch).
> >
> >   FILES=`find ./ -name '*.c'`
> >   CNT=$(pcregrep -M "strbuf_reset.*\n.*strbuf_add" $FILES | wc -l)
> 
> Hmm.. I wonder if git-grep could do this.. There's pcre support but I
> never tried.
> 

> >   CNT=$(echo "$CNT / 2" | bc)
> >   echo $CNT
> >   70
> 
> The change in this series looks nice. There's another pattern, save
> strbuf length, then strbuf_setlen() at the beginning or the end of a
> loop. But I think it's less often.