[Sablevm-developer] Minor optimization

[Archie C. <ar...@de...>]

Why not this patch? memset() is often a lot faster than loops, as the
compiler may know how to optimize specially for it... if so this patch
should speed up every new object allocation.

-Archie

__________________________________________________________________________
Archie Cobbs     *     Packet Design     *     http://www.packetdesign.com

--- src/libsablevm/gc_copying.c.orig	Tue Dec 10 11:51:13 2002
+++ src/libsablevm/gc_copying.c	Tue Dec 10 11:51:34 2002
@@ -1054,14 +1054,7 @@
       return JNI_ERR;
     }
 
-  {
-    size_t i;
-
-    for (i = 0; i < instance_size; i++)
-      {
-	((char *) result)[i] = 0;
-      }
-  }
+  memset(result, 0, instance_size);
 
   *pinstance = result;