Re: [PATCH 3/4] cat-file: use a single strbuf for all output

> When we're in batch mode, we end up in batch_object_write()
> for each object, which allocates its own strbuf for each
> call. Instead, we can provide a single "scratch" buffer that
> gets reused for each output. When running:
> 
>   git cat-file --batch-all-objects --batch-check='%(objectname)'
> 
> on git.git, my best-of-five time drops from:
> 
>   real	0m0.171s
>   user	0m0.159s
>   sys	0m0.012s
> 
> to:
> 
>   real	0m0.133s
>   user	0m0.121s
>   sys	0m0.012s
> 
> Note that we could do this just by putting the "scratch"
> pointer into "struct expand_data", but I chose instead to
> add an extra parameter to the callstack. That's more
> verbose, but it makes it a bit more obvious what is going
> on, which in turn makes it easy to see where we need to be
> releasing the string in the caller (right after the loop
> which uses it in each case).
> 
> Based-on-a-patch-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
> ---
> It also made it easy to see that without the prior patch,
> we'd have been using "buf" for two parameters. :)

> 
>  builtin/cat-file.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++-----------
>  1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/builtin/cat-file.c b/builtin/cat-file.c
> index 3ed1d0be80..08dced2614 100644
> --- a/builtin/cat-file.c
> +++ b/builtin/cat-file.c
> @@ -338,11 +338,11 @@ static void print_object_or_die(struct batch_options *opt, struct expand_data *d
>  	}
>  }
>  
> -static void batch_object_write(const char *obj_name, struct batch_options *opt,
> +static void batch_object_write(const char *obj_name,
> +			       struct strbuf *scratch,
> +			       struct batch_options *opt,
>  			       struct expand_data *data)
>  {
> -	struct strbuf buf = STRBUF_INIT;

> -
>  	if (!data->skip_object_info &&
>  	    oid_object_info_extended(the_repository, &data->oid, &data->info,
>  				     OBJECT_INFO_LOOKUP_REPLACE) < 0) {
> @@ -352,10 +352,10 @@ static void batch_object_write(const char *obj_name, struct batch_options *opt,
>  		return;
>  	}
>  
> -	strbuf_expand(&buf, opt->format, expand_format, data);
> -	strbuf_addch(&buf, '\n');
> -	batch_write(opt, buf.buf, buf.len);
> -	strbuf_release(&buf);
> +	strbuf_reset(scratch);
> +	strbuf_expand(scratch, opt->format, expand_format, data);
> +	strbuf_addch(scratch, '\n');
> +	batch_write(opt, scratch->buf, scratch->len);
>  
>  	if (opt->print_contents) {
>  		print_object_or_die(opt, data);
> @@ -363,7 +363,9 @@ static void batch_object_write(const char *obj_name, struct batch_options *opt,
>  	}
>  }
>  
> -static void batch_one_object(const char *obj_name, struct batch_options *opt,
> +static void batch_one_object(const char *obj_name,
> +			     struct strbuf *scratch,
> +			     struct batch_options *opt,
>  			     struct expand_data *data)
>  {
>  	struct object_context ctx;
> @@ -405,20 +407,21 @@ static void batch_one_object(const char *obj_name, struct batch_options *opt,
>  		return;
>  	}
>  
> -	batch_object_write(obj_name, opt, data);
> +	batch_object_write(obj_name, scratch, opt, data);
>  }
>  
>  struct object_cb_data {
>  	struct batch_options *opt;
>  	struct expand_data *expand;
>  	struct oidset *seen;
> +	struct strbuf *scratch;
>  };
>  
>  static int batch_object_cb(const struct object_id *oid, void *vdata)
>  {
>  	struct object_cb_data *data = vdata;
>  	oidcpy(&data->expand->oid, oid);
> -	batch_object_write(NULL, data->opt, data->expand);
> +	batch_object_write(NULL, data->scratch, data->opt, data->expand);
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> @@ -509,6 +512,7 @@ static int batch_objects(struct batch_options *opt)
>  
>  		cb.opt = opt;
>  		cb.expand = &data;
> +		cb.scratch = &output;
>  
>  		if (opt->unordered) {
>  			struct oidset seen = OIDSET_INIT;
> @@ -531,6 +535,7 @@ static int batch_objects(struct batch_options *opt)
>  			oid_array_clear(&sa);
>  		}
>  
> +		strbuf_release(&output);
>  		return 0;
>  	}
>  
> @@ -559,10 +564,11 @@ static int batch_objects(struct batch_options *opt)
>  			data.rest = p;
>  		}
>  
> -		batch_one_object(input.buf, opt, &data);
> +		batch_one_object(input.buf, &output, opt, &data);
>  	}
>  
>  	strbuf_release(&input);
> +	strbuf_release(&output);
>  	warn_on_object_refname_ambiguity = save_warning;
>  	return retval;
>  }
>