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# HG changeset patch
# User Cristian Staretu <unclejacksons@gmail.com>
# Date 1404344453 -36000
#      Thu Jul 03 09:40:53 2014 +1000
# Node ID 837348e418f33fc7a242f56dbe2feff829532526
# Parent  c5f72a685e256457a0872f6587e2bb9500eac7c4
archive/tar: reuse temporary buffer in writeHeader

A temporary 512 bytes buffer is allocated for every call to
writeHeader. This buffer could be reused the lower the number
of memory allocations.

benchmark                   old ns/op     new ns/op     delta
BenchmarkWriteFiles100k     634622051     583810847     -8.01%

benchmark                   old allocs     new allocs     delta
BenchmarkWriteFiles100k     2701920        2602621        -3.68%

benchmark                   old bytes     new bytes     delta
BenchmarkWriteFiles100k     115383884     64349922      -44.23%

This change is very important if your code has to write a lot of
tarballs with a lot of files.

LGTM=dsymonds
R=golang-codereviews, dave, dsymonds
CC=golang-codereviews
https://codereview.appspot.com/107440043

Committer: David Symonds <dsymonds@golang.org>

diff -r c5f72a685e25 -r 837348e418f3 src/pkg/archive/tar/writer.go
--- a/src/pkg/archive/tar/writer.go	Wed Jul 02 15:28:57 2014 -0700
+++ b/src/pkg/archive/tar/writer.go	Thu Jul 03 09:40:53 2014 +1000
@@ -37,8 +37,9 @@
 	nb         int64 // number of unwritten bytes for current file entry
 	pad        int64 // amount of padding to write after current file entry
 	closed     bool
-	usedBinary bool // whether the binary numeric field extension was used
-	preferPax  bool // use pax header instead of binary numeric header
+	usedBinary bool            // whether the binary numeric field extension was used
+	preferPax  bool            // use pax header instead of binary numeric header
+	hdrBuff    [blockSize]byte // buffer to use in writeHeader
 }
 
 // NewWriter creates a new Writer writing to w.
@@ -160,7 +161,8 @@
 	// subsecond time resolution, but for now let's just capture
 	// too long fields or non ascii characters
 
-	header := make([]byte, blockSize)
+	header := tw.hdrBuff[:]
+	copy(header, zeroBlock)
 	s := slicer(header)
 
 	// keep a reference to the filename to allow to overwrite it later if we detect that we can use ustar longnames instead of pax