--pretty=format: on-demand format expansion

Some of the --pretty=format placeholders expansions are expensive to
calculate.  This is made worse by the current code's use of
interpolate(), which requires _all_ placeholders are to be prepared
up front.

One way to speed this up is to check which placeholders are present
in the format string and to prepare only the expansions that are
needed.  That still leaves the allocation overhead of interpolate().

Another way is to use a callback based approach together with the
strbuf library to keep allocations to a minimum and avoid string
copies.  That's what this patch does.  It introduces a new strbuf
function, strbuf_expand().

The function takes a format string, list of placeholder strings,
a user supplied function 'fn', and an opaque pointer 'context'
to tell 'fn' what thingy to operate on.

The function 'fn' is expected to accept a strbuf, a parsed
placeholder string and the 'context' pointer, and append the
interpolated value for the 'context' thingy, according to the
format specified by the placeholder.

Thanks to Pierre Habouzit for his suggestion to use strchrnul() and
the code surrounding its callsite.  And thanks to Junio for most of
this commit message. :)

Here my measurements of most of Paul Mackerras' test cases that
highlighted the performance problem (best of three runs):

(master)
$ time git log --pretty=oneline >/dev/null

real    0m0.390s
user    0m0.340s
sys     0m0.040s

(master)
$ time git log --pretty=raw >/dev/null

real    0m0.434s
user    0m0.408s
sys     0m0.016s

(master)
$ time git log --pretty="format:%H {%P} %ct" >/dev/null

real    0m1.347s
user    0m0.080s
sys     0m1.256s

(interp_find_active -- Dscho)
$ time ./git log --pretty="format:%H {%P} %ct" >/dev/null

real    0m0.694s
user    0m0.020s
sys     0m0.672s

(strbuf_expand -- this patch)
$ time ./git log --pretty="format:%H {%P} %ct" >/dev/null

real    0m0.395s
user    0m0.352s
sys     0m0.028s

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/strbuf.h b/strbuf.h
index cd7f295b65..21d8944154 100644
--- a/strbuf.h
+++ b/strbuf.h
@@ -102,6 +102,9 @@ static inline void strbuf_addbuf(struct strbuf *sb, struct strbuf *sb2) {
 	strbuf_add(sb, sb2->buf, sb2->len);
 }
 
+typedef void (*expand_fn_t) (struct strbuf *sb, const char *placeholder, void *context);
+extern void strbuf_expand(struct strbuf *sb, const char *format, const char **placeholders, expand_fn_t fn, void *context);
+
 __attribute__((format(printf,2,3)))
 extern void strbuf_addf(struct strbuf *sb, const char *fmt, ...);