[PATCH 00/10] name-rev: improve memory usage

["René Scharfe" <l.s.r@web.de>]

This series seeks to get reduce the size of memory allocations, the
number of reallocations and the amount of leaks in git name-rev, to
improve its performance.  It starts with a few cleanups:

Martin Ågren (1):
  name-rev: rewrite create_or_update_name()

René Scharfe (9):
  name-rev: remove unused typedef
  name-rev: respect const qualifier
  name-rev: don't _peek() in create_or_update_name()

... then plugs a minor leak:

  name-rev: don't leak path copy in name_ref()

... and gets rid of a level of indirection in commit slab usage:

  name-rev: put struct rev_name into commit slab

The next two patches eliminate reallocations while building name strings
for parent commits, which can make a surprisingly big difference in some
cases:

  name-rev: factor out get_parent_name()
  name-rev: pre-size buffer in get_parent_name()

The next one avoids building names that are be discarded right away by
checking first if they are better than a possibly present other name
assigned earlier, which only provides a small speedup, but is the right
thing to do:

  name-rev: generate name strings only if they are better

And finally a tricky one whose commit message is a lot longer than its
diff, which adds a bit of overhead and which probably needs the most
reviewer attention to make sure it won't cause double frees:

  name-rev: release unused name strings

 builtin/name-rev.c | 133 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
 1 file changed, 76 insertions(+), 57 deletions(-)

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