[Spice-devel] [PATCH] small spice_strdup optimization

Frediano Ziglio fziglio at redhat.com
Tue Jan 26 08:36:06 PST 2016


avoid to compute the string length twice and use memcpy instead of
strcpy which is faster not having to check for terminator.

Signed-off-by: Frediano Ziglio <fziglio at redhat.com>
---
 common/mem.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/common/mem.c b/common/mem.c
index 2fda6f3..e430b5d 100644
--- a/common/mem.c
+++ b/common/mem.c
@@ -46,13 +46,15 @@ size_t spice_strnlen(const char *str, size_t max_len)
 char *spice_strdup(const char *str)
 {
     char *copy;
+    size_t len;
 
     if (str == NULL) {
         return NULL;
     }
 
-    copy = (char *)spice_malloc(strlen(str) + 1);
-    strcpy(copy, str);
+    len = strlen(str) + 1;
+    copy = (char *)spice_malloc(len);
+    memcpy(copy, str, len);
     return copy;
 }
 
-- 
2.4.3



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