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authorEric Wong <e@yhbt.net>2020-04-05 07:53:47 +0000
committerEric Wong <e@yhbt.net>2020-04-05 22:06:20 +0000
commitfec19e492eacb10f990091592f423542ab4249bd (patch)
tree075f20f90ae319b2e30e949c635fa53ff06d47f3 /lib/PublicInbox/Mbox.pm
parentb6fc8916a05176ef006b07bba977b59cdf6a0bce (diff)
downloadpublic-inbox-fec19e492eacb10f990091592f423542ab4249bd.tar.gz
Using `undef EXPR' like a function call actually frees the heap
memory associated with the scalar, whereas `$sv = undef' or
`$sv = ""' will hold the buffer around until $sv goes out
of scope.

The `sv_set_undef' documentation in the perlapi(1) manpage
explicitly states this:

  The perl equivalent is "$sv = undef;". Note that it doesn't
  free any string buffer, unlike "undef $sv".

And I've confirmed by reading Dump() output from Devel::Peek.

We'll also inline the old index_body sub in SearchIdx.pm to make
the scope of the scalar more obvious.

This change saves several hundred kB RSS on both -index and
-httpd when hitting large emails with thousands of lines.
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