xdiff: avoid unnecessary memory allocations

rindex and ha are only used by xdl_cleanup_records() which is not
called by the histogram or patience algorithms. The perf test results
show a small reduction in run time but that is probably within the
noise.

Test                                  HEAD^             HEAD
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4000.1: log -3000 (baseline)          0.19(0.17+0.02)   0.19(0.12+0.07) +0.0%
4000.2: log --raw -3000 (tree-only)   0.98(0.78+0.20)   0.98(0.81+0.16) +0.0%
4000.3: log -p -3000 (Myers)          4.81(4.15+0.64)   4.81(4.23+0.56) +0.0%
4000.4: log -p -3000 --histogram      5.87(5.19+0.66)   5.83(5.11+0.70) -0.7%
4000.5: log -p -3000 --patience       5.35(4.60+0.73)   5.31(4.61+0.69) -0.7%

Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Phillip Wood 2021-11-17 11:20:24 +00:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
parent 663c5ad035
commit b82dd3f7f2

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@ -213,10 +213,13 @@ static int xdl_prepare_ctx(unsigned int pass, mmfile_t *mf, long narec, xpparam_
goto abort;
memset(rchg, 0, (nrec + 2) * sizeof(char));
if (!(rindex = (long *) xdl_malloc((nrec + 1) * sizeof(long))))
goto abort;
if (!(ha = (unsigned long *) xdl_malloc((nrec + 1) * sizeof(unsigned long))))
goto abort;
if ((XDF_DIFF_ALG(xpp->flags) != XDF_PATIENCE_DIFF) &&
(XDF_DIFF_ALG(xpp->flags) != XDF_HISTOGRAM_DIFF)) {
if (!(rindex = xdl_malloc((nrec + 1) * sizeof(*rindex))))
goto abort;
if (!(ha = xdl_malloc((nrec + 1) * sizeof(*ha))))
goto abort;
}
xdf->nrec = nrec;
xdf->recs = recs;