From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: William Duclot <william.duclot@ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr>,
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
git@vger.kernel.org, antoine.queru@ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr,
francois.beutin@ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr,
Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de, mh@glandium.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 3/3] strbuf: allow to use preallocated memory
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2016 11:07:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqziqvlfk6.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <575845D9.2010604@alum.mit.edu> (Michael Haggerty's message of "Wed, 8 Jun 2016 18:20:41 +0200")
Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> writes:
> * It's a little less manual bookkeeping, and thus less error-prone,
> than the current code.
>
> * If somebody decides to add another character to the line but
> forgets to increase the allocation size, the code dies in testing
> rather than (a) overflowing the buffer, like the current
> code, or (b) silently becoming less performant, as if it used a
> preallocated but non-fixed strbuf.
Yeah, thanks. A relization of pretty much the same came to me after
I wrote my last message on this topic. The above two are
attractive.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-08 18:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-06 15:13 [PATCH V2 0/3] strbuf: improve API William Duclot
2016-06-06 15:13 ` [PATCH V2 1/3] strbuf: add tests William Duclot
2016-06-06 16:11 ` Matthieu Moy
2016-06-07 8:44 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-06-06 15:13 ` [PATCH V2 2/3] pretty.c: rename strbuf_wrap() function William Duclot
2016-06-06 16:12 ` Matthieu Moy
2016-06-07 9:04 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-06-06 15:13 ` [PATCH V2 3/3] strbuf: allow to use preallocated memory William Duclot
2016-06-06 16:17 ` Matthieu Moy
2016-06-06 17:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-06-06 20:39 ` William Duclot
2016-06-06 22:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-06-06 22:58 ` Jeff King
2016-06-06 23:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-06-06 23:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-06-06 23:30 ` Jeff King
2016-06-07 9:06 ` William Duclot
2016-06-07 18:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-06-08 16:20 ` Michael Haggerty
2016-06-08 18:07 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2016-06-08 19:19 ` Jeff King
2016-06-08 19:42 ` [PATCH] send-pack: use buffered I/O to talk to pack-objects Jeff King
2016-06-09 12:10 ` Matthieu Moy
2016-06-09 14:34 ` Ramsay Jones
2016-06-09 17:12 ` Jeff King
2016-06-09 22:40 ` Ramsay Jones
2016-06-09 16:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-06-09 17:14 ` Jeff King
2016-06-09 17:22 ` Matthieu Moy
2016-06-08 19:48 ` [PATCH V2 3/3] strbuf: allow to use preallocated memory Junio C Hamano
2016-06-08 19:52 ` Jeff King
2016-06-08 23:05 ` Junio C Hamano
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