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Micro-optimizate memory usage in CatCacheCopyKeys #283

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@tristan957

CatCacheCopyKeys has this:


	/*
	 * XXX: memory and lookup performance could possibly be improved by
	 * storing all keys in one allocation.
	 */

That seems like a good idea. We'd like to reduce backend memory usage. This is a very small part of it, but it's also a very localized change.

Also, this function often deals with the 'name' type. 'name' is a fixed-width type, 64 bytes wide (NAMEDATALEN to be precise). However, it's always null-terminated, and the functions in catcache.c like nameeqfast and namehashfast treat it as a C string. So we don't really need to alloc and copy the whole 64 bytes, we could call strlen() here and leave out the trailing zeros.

Tasks:

  • Create a test case that shows the benefit. Something that creates a lot of catcache entries, and measure the memory usage.
  • Do the above optimizations

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