good for merge

regards
-steve
On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 21:29 +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Looked at a leak mentioned on IRC and saw a large amount of waste...
> This looks easy and safe to avoid:
> 
> From b5550f22ceefb0941198810370c9ed1c04301992 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Jim Meyering <[email protected]>
> Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:25:48 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] perf: avoid writing 1MB of zero bytes
> 
> Don't initialize the entire just-allocated buffer to all zeroes.
> The very next lines initialize all members except "data".
> * exec/totempg.c (assembly_ref): Initialize the first byte of
> assembly->data to 0, just in case someone uses it as a string.
> ---
>  exec/totempg.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/exec/totempg.c b/exec/totempg.c
> index 2d97e68..47f8413 100644
> --- a/exec/totempg.c
> +++ b/exec/totempg.c
> @@ -283,12 +283,12 @@ static struct assembly *assembly_ref (unsigned int 
> nodeid)
>        * Nothing available in inuse or free list, so allocate a new one
>        */
>       assembly = malloc (sizeof (struct assembly));
> -     memset (assembly, 0, sizeof (struct assembly));
>       /*
>        * TODO handle memory allocation failure here
>        */
>       assert (assembly);
>       assembly->nodeid = nodeid;
> +     assembly->data[0] = 0;
>       assembly->index = 0;
>       assembly->last_frag_num = 0;
>       assembly->throw_away_mode = THROW_AWAY_INACTIVE;
> --
> 1.6.3.rc1.205.g37f8
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