strmap: enable faster clearing and reusing of strmaps

When strmaps are used heavily, such as is done by my new merge-ort
algorithm, and strmaps need to be cleared but then re-used (because of
e.g. picking multiple commits to cherry-pick, or due to a recursive
merge having several different merges while recursing), free-ing and
reallocating map->table repeatedly can add up in time, especially since
it will likely be reallocated to a much smaller size but the previous
merge provides a good guide to the right size to use for the next merge.

Introduce strmap_partial_clear() to take advantage of this type of
situation; it will act similar to strmap_clear() except that
map->table's entries are zeroed instead of map->table being free'd.
Making use of this function reduced the cost of
clear_or_reinit_internal_opts() by about 20% in mert-ort, and dropped
the overall runtime of my rebase testcase by just under 2%.

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/strmap.h b/strmap.h
index f74bc58..c14fcee 100644
--- a/strmap.h
+++ b/strmap.h
@@ -43,6 +43,12 @@ void strmap_init_with_options(struct strmap *map,
 void strmap_clear(struct strmap *map, int free_values);
 
 /*
+ * Similar to strmap_clear() but leaves map->map->table allocated and
+ * pre-sized so that subsequent uses won't need as many rehashings.
+ */
+void strmap_partial_clear(struct strmap *map, int free_values);
+
+/*
  * Insert "str" into the map, pointing to "data".
  *
  * If an entry for "str" already exists, its data pointer is overwritten, and