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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"René Scharfe" <l.s.r@web.de>, "Git List" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Johannes Schindelin" <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fast-export: avoid NULL pointer arithmetic
Date: Fri, 11 May 2018 13:42:37 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180511174237.GA19670@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180511133419.GA2170@duynguyen.home>

On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 03:34:19PM +0200, Duy Nguyen wrote:

> On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 03:11:46PM +0200, Duy Nguyen wrote:
> > Back to fast-export, can we just allocate a new int on heap and point
> > it there? Allocating small pieces becomes quite cheap and fast with
> > mem-pool.h and we can avoid this storing integer in pointer business.
> 
> Something like this seems to work, but we use 4-ish more bytes per
> object, or 100MB overhead on a repo with 25M objects. I think it's a
> reasonable trade off.

I'm not sure I agree. 4 bytes per object certainly isn't the end of the
world, but what was the problem we were solving in the first place? Just
that we weren't comfortable with the round-trip from uintptr_t to void
and back? Is this actually a problem on real platforms? If not, it seems
silly to incur a run-time cost.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2018-05-11 17:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-09 21:06 [PATCH] fast-export: avoid NULL pointer arithmetic René Scharfe
2018-05-09 21:43 ` Johannes Schindelin
2018-05-10  9:24 ` René Scharfe
2018-05-10 10:51   ` Junio C Hamano
2018-05-10 19:47     ` René Scharfe
2018-05-11  2:16       ` Junio C Hamano
2018-05-11  4:49         ` Junio C Hamano
2018-05-11  6:19           ` Duy Nguyen
2018-05-11  8:56             ` Jeff King
2018-05-11 13:11               ` Duy Nguyen
2018-05-11 13:34                 ` Duy Nguyen
2018-05-11 17:42                   ` Jeff King [this message]
2018-05-12  8:45                     ` René Scharfe
2018-05-12  8:49                       ` René Scharfe
2018-05-14  1:37                       ` Junio C Hamano
2018-05-15 19:36                         ` René Scharfe

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