# HG changeset patch # User Gregory Szorc # Date 1479689781 28800 # Node ID d195fa651b5171733cd71e301a03295b489c5942 # Parent ce3a133f71b36b122426468dd89d06aff7a97f8d bdiff: don't check border condition in loop This is pretty much a copy of d500ddae7494, just to a different loop. The condition `p == plast` (`plast == a + len - 1`) was only true on the final iteration of the loop. So it was wasteful to check for it on every iteration. We decrease the iteration count by 1 and add an explicit check for `p == plast` after the loop. Again, we see modest wins. From the mozilla-unified repository: $ perfbdiff -m 3041e4d59df2 ! wall 0.035502 comb 0.040000 user 0.040000 sys 0.000000 (best of 100) ! wall 0.030480 comb 0.030000 user 0.030000 sys 0.000000 (best of 100) $ perfbdiff 0e9928989e9c --alldata --count 100 ! wall 4.097394 comb 4.100000 user 4.100000 sys 0.000000 (best of 3) ! wall 3.597798 comb 3.600000 user 3.600000 sys 0.000000 (best of 3) The 2nd example throws a total of ~3.3GB of data at bdiff. This change increases the throughput from ~811 MB/s to ~924 MB/s. diff -r ce3a133f71b3 -r d195fa651b51 mercurial/bdiff.c --- a/mercurial/bdiff.c Sat Nov 19 15:41:37 2016 -0800 +++ b/mercurial/bdiff.c Sun Nov 20 16:56:21 2016 -0800 @@ -47,10 +47,10 @@ /* build the line array and calculate hashes */ hash = 0; - for (p = a; p < a + len; p++) { + for (p = a; p < plast; p++) { hash = HASH(hash, *p); - if (*p == '\n' || p == plast) { + if (*p == '\n') { l->hash = hash; hash = 0; l->len = p - b + 1; @@ -61,6 +61,15 @@ } } + if (p == plast) { + hash = HASH(hash, *p); + l->hash = hash; + l->len = p - b + 1; + l->l = b; + l->n = INT_MAX; + l++; + } + /* set up a sentinel */ l->hash = 0; l->len = 0;