strbuf_getwholeline: use getdelim if it is available

We spend a lot of time in strbuf_getwholeline in a tight
loop reading characters from a stdio handle into a buffer.
The libc getdelim() function can do this for us with less
overhead. It's in POSIX.1-2008, and was a GNU extension
before that. Therefore we can't rely on it, but can fall
back to the existing getc loop when it is not available.

The HAVE_GETDELIM knob is turned on automatically for Linux,
where we have glibc. We don't need to set any new
feature-test macros, because we already define _GNU_SOURCE.
Other systems that implement getdelim may need to other
macros (probably _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200809L), but we can
address that along with setting the Makefile knob after
testing the feature on those systems.

Running "git rev-parse refs/heads/does-not-exist" on a repo
with an extremely large (1.6GB) packed-refs file went from
(best-of-5):

  real    0m8.601s
  user    0m8.084s
  sys     0m0.524s

to:

  real    0m6.768s
  user    0m6.340s
  sys     0m0.432s

for a wall-clock speedup of 21%.

Based on a patch from Rasmus Villemoes <rv@rasmusvillemoes.dk>.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 5f3987f..36655d5 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -359,6 +359,8 @@ all::
 # compiler is detected to support it.
 #
 # Define HAVE_BSD_SYSCTL if your platform has a BSD-compatible sysctl function.
+#
+# Define HAVE_GETDELIM if your system has the getdelim() function.
 
 GIT-VERSION-FILE: FORCE
 	@$(SHELL_PATH) ./GIT-VERSION-GEN
@@ -1437,6 +1439,10 @@ ifdef HAVE_BSD_SYSCTL
 	BASIC_CFLAGS += -DHAVE_BSD_SYSCTL
 endif
 
+ifdef HAVE_GETDELIM
+	BASIC_CFLAGS += -DHAVE_GETDELIM
+endif
+
 ifeq ($(TCLTK_PATH),)
 NO_TCLTK = NoThanks
 endif