Based on ideas documented in this blog post:
https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/three-optimization-tips-for-c/10151361643253920
The original code was modified to handle signed integers, reformetted to
fit inside the Redis code base, and was stress-tested with a program
in order to validate the implementation against snprintf().
Redis was measured to be measurably faster from the point of view of
clients in real-world operations because of this change, since sometimes
number to string conversion is used extensively (for example every time
a GET results into an integer encoded object to be returned to the
user).
I happen to be working on a system that lacks urandom. While the code does try
to handle this case and artificially create some bytes if the file pointer is
empty, it does try to close it unconditionally, leading to a segfault.
Note by @antirez: this code was never compiled because utils.c lacked the
float.h include, so we never noticed this variable was mispelled in the
past.
This should provide a noticeable speed boost when saving certain types
of databases with many sorted sets inside.
networking related stuff moved into networking.c
moved more code
more work on layout of source code
SDS instantaneuos memory saving. By Pieter and Salvatore at VMware ;)
cleanly compiling again after the first split, now splitting it in more C files
moving more things around... work in progress
split replication code
splitting more
Sets split
Hash split
replication split
even more splitting
more splitting
minor change
