stable-qsort: avoid using potentially unaligned access

Like in the previous patch for compat/qsort_s.c, remove the optimization
of using an on-stack buffer to avoid small allocations.  This ensures
maximum alignment for the array elements and simplifies the code a bit.

The performance impact for the current callers is unlikely to be
noticeable:

 * compat/mingw.c::make_environment_block() uses ALLOC_ARRAY and
   ALLOC_GROW several times already, so another allocation of up to 1KB
   should not matter much.

 * diffcore-rename.c::diffcore_rename_extended() is called once per diff
   or twice per merge, and those require allocations for each object and
   more already.

 * merge-ort.c::detect_and_process_renames() is called once per merge.
   It's responsible for the two per-merge diffcore_rename_extended()
   calls mentioned above as well, though.  So this is possibly the most
   impacted caller.  Per-object allocations are likely to dwarf the
   additional small allocations in git_stable_qsort(), though.

Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/stable-qsort.c b/stable-qsort.c
index 6cbaf39f7b..7ff12467cd 100644
--- a/stable-qsort.c
+++ b/stable-qsort.c
@@ -48,15 +48,9 @@ void git_stable_qsort(void *b, size_t n, size_t s,
 		      int (*cmp)(const void *, const void *))
 {
 	const size_t size = st_mult(n, s);
-	char buf[1024];
-
-	if (size < sizeof(buf)) {
-		/* The temporary array fits on the small on-stack buffer. */
-		msort_with_tmp(b, n, s, cmp, buf);
-	} else {
-		/* It's somewhat large, so malloc it.  */
-		char *tmp = xmalloc(size);
-		msort_with_tmp(b, n, s, cmp, tmp);
-		free(tmp);
-	}
+	char *tmp;
+
+	tmp = xmalloc(size);
+	msort_with_tmp(b, n, s, cmp, tmp);
+	free(tmp);
 }