add SDS_NOINIT option to sdsnewlen to avoid unnecessary memsets.

this commit also contains small bugfix in rdbLoadLzfStringObject
a bug that currently has no implications.

src/aof.c

@@ -699,7 +699,7 @@ int loadAppendOnlyFile(char *filename) {
             }
             if (buf[0] != '$') goto fmterr;
             len = strtol(buf+1,NULL,10);
-            argsds = sdsnewlen(NULL,len);
+            argsds = sdsnewlen(SDS_NOINIT,len);
             if (len && fread(argsds,len,1,fp) == 0) {
                 sdsfree(argsds);
                 fakeClient->argc = j; /* Free up to j-1. */

src/networking.c

@@ -1234,7 +1234,7 @@ int processMultibulkBuffer(client *c) {
                 sdsIncrLen(c->querybuf,-2); /* remove CRLF */
                 /* Assume that if we saw a fat argument we'll see another one
                  * likely... */
-                c->querybuf = sdsnewlen(NULL,c->bulklen+2);
+                c->querybuf = sdsnewlen(SDS_NOINIT,c->bulklen+2);
                 sdsclear(c->querybuf);
                 pos = 0;
             } else {
@@ -1477,7 +1477,7 @@ sds getAllClientsInfoString(void) {
     listNode *ln;
     listIter li;
     client *client;
-    sds o = sdsnewlen(NULL,200*listLength(server.clients));
+    sds o = sdsnewlen(SDS_NOINIT,200*listLength(server.clients));
     sdsclear(o);
     listRewind(server.clients,&li);
     while ((ln = listNext(&li)) != NULL) {

src/object.c

@@ -98,7 +98,9 @@ robj *createEmbeddedStringObject(const char *ptr, size_t len) {
     sh->len = len;
     sh->alloc = len;
     sh->flags = SDS_TYPE_8;
-    if (ptr) {
+    if (ptr == SDS_NOINIT)
+        sh->buf[len] = '\0';
+    else if (ptr) {
         memcpy(sh->buf,ptr,len);
         sh->buf[len] = '\0';
     } else {

src/rdb.c

@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ void *rdbLoadIntegerObject(rio *rdb, int enctype, int flags, size_t *lenptr) {
         char buf[LONG_STR_SIZE], *p;
         int len = ll2string(buf,sizeof(buf),val);
         if (lenptr) *lenptr = len;
-        p = plain ? zmalloc(len) : sdsnewlen(NULL,len);
+        p = plain ? zmalloc(len) : sdsnewlen(SDS_NOINIT,len);
         memcpy(p,buf,len);
         return p;
     } else if (encode) {
@@ -343,10 +343,10 @@ void *rdbLoadLzfStringObject(rio *rdb, int flags, size_t *lenptr) {
     /* Allocate our target according to the uncompressed size. */
     if (plain) {
         val = zmalloc(len);
-        if (lenptr) *lenptr = len;
     } else {
-        val = sdsnewlen(NULL,len);
+        val = sdsnewlen(SDS_NOINIT,len);
     }
+    if (lenptr) *lenptr = len;
 
     /* Load the compressed representation and uncompress it to target. */
     if (rioRead(rdb,c,clen) == 0) goto err;
@@ -471,7 +471,7 @@ void *rdbGenericLoadStringObject(rio *rdb, int flags, size_t *lenptr) {
 
     if (len == RDB_LENERR) return NULL;
     if (plain || sds) {
-        void *buf = plain ? zmalloc(len) : sdsnewlen(NULL,len);
+        void *buf = plain ? zmalloc(len) : sdsnewlen(SDS_NOINIT,len);
         if (lenptr) *lenptr = len;
         if (len && rioRead(rdb,buf,len) == 0) {
             if (plain)
@@ -482,8 +482,8 @@ void *rdbGenericLoadStringObject(rio *rdb, int flags, size_t *lenptr) {
         }
         return buf;
     } else {
-        robj *o = encode ? createStringObject(NULL,len) :
+        robj *o = encode ? createStringObject(SDS_NOINIT,len) :
-                           createRawStringObject(NULL,len);
+                           createRawStringObject(SDS_NOINIT,len);
         if (len && rioRead(rdb,o->ptr,len) == 0) {
             decrRefCount(o);
             return NULL;

src/sds.c

@@ -39,6 +39,8 @@
 #include "sds.h"
 #include "sdsalloc.h"
 
+const char *SDS_NOINIT = "SDS_NOINIT";
+
 static inline int sdsHdrSize(char type) {
     switch(type&SDS_TYPE_MASK) {
         case SDS_TYPE_5:
@@ -72,6 +74,7 @@ static inline char sdsReqType(size_t string_size) {
 /* Create a new sds string with the content specified by the 'init' pointer
  * and 'initlen'.
  * If NULL is used for 'init' the string is initialized with zero bytes.
+ * If SDS_NOINIT is used, the buffer is left uninitialized;
  *
  * The string is always null-termined (all the sds strings are, always) so
  * even if you create an sds string with:
@@ -92,7 +95,9 @@ sds sdsnewlen(const void *init, size_t initlen) {
     unsigned char *fp; /* flags pointer. */
 
     sh = s_malloc(hdrlen+initlen+1);
-    if (!init)
+    if (init==SDS_NOINIT)
+        init = NULL;
+    else if (!init)
         memset(sh, 0, hdrlen+initlen+1);
     if (sh == NULL) return NULL;
     s = (char*)sh+hdrlen;

src/sds.h

@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
 #define __SDS_H
 
 #define SDS_MAX_PREALLOC (1024*1024)
+const char *SDS_NOINIT;
 
 #include <sys/types.h>
 #include <stdarg.h>