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From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
To: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] tree.c: update read_tree_recursive callback to pass strbuf as base
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2014 19:11:44 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPig+cS1OK6pv5A0vuJf=j6eFrNv70=AYgVz3zQny-md15_xKg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8B7G9xQerZ+6GTPQuG2v1DuJLXfsKFobuz_vyFahnXuYQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 7:11 AM, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 2:32 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy  <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> This allows the callback to use 'base' as a temporary buffer to
>>> quickly assemble full path "without" extra allocation. The callback
>>> has to restore it afterwards of course.
>>
>> Hmph, what's the quote around 'without' doing there?
>
> because it's only true if you haven't used up all preallocated space
> in strbuf. If someone passes an empty strbuf, then underneath strbuf
> may do a few realloc until the buffer is large enough.

Would it be easier to understand if written like this?

    This allows the callback to use 'base' as a temporary buffer to
    quickly assemble full path, thus avoiding allocation/deallocation
    for each iteration step.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-03  0:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-30  9:04 [PATCH 0/3] ls-tree fixes Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2014-11-30  9:05 ` [PATCH 1/3] tree.c: update read_tree_recursive callback to pass strbuf as base Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2014-12-01 19:32   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-12-02 12:11     ` Duy Nguyen
2014-12-03  0:11       ` Eric Sunshine [this message]
2014-12-03 16:13         ` Junio C Hamano
2014-12-08 13:30           ` Duy Nguyen
2014-11-30  9:05 ` [PATCH 2/3] ls-tree: remove path filtering logic in show_tree Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2014-11-30  9:05 ` [PATCH 3/3] ls-tree: disable negative pathspec because it's not supported Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2014-12-01 19:40   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-12-02 12:14     ` Duy Nguyen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-11-08 11:00 [PATCH 1/3] tree.c: update read_tree_recursive callback to pass strbuf as base Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2014-11-08 11:03 ` Duy Nguyen
2014-11-09  3:56 ` Eric Sunshine

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