Speed up printing of objectsize values by using the specialized function
strbuf_add_uint() as well as strbuf_insert() for padding instead of the
general-purpose function strbuf_addf(). Here are the numbers I get when
listing objects in the Linux kernel repo:
Benchmark 1: ./git_main -C ../linux ls-tree -r --format='%(objectsize)' HEAD
Time (mean ± σ): 294.4 ms ± 0.4 ms [User: 231.5 ms, System: 59.4 ms]
Range (min … max): 293.9 ms … 295.0 ms 10 runs
Benchmark 2: ./git -C ../linux ls-tree -r --format='%(objectsize)' HEAD
Time (mean ± σ): 291.2 ms ± 0.4 ms [User: 227.9 ms, System: 62.1 ms]
Range (min … max): 290.6 ms … 292.0 ms 10 runs
Benchmark 3: ./git_main -C ../linux ls-tree -r --format='%(objectsize:padded)' HEAD
Time (mean ± σ): 295.3 ms ± 0.6 ms [User: 232.0 ms, System: 59.6 ms]
Range (min … max): 294.3 ms … 296.3 ms 10 runs
Benchmark 4: ./git -C ../linux ls-tree -r --format='%(objectsize:padded)' HEAD
Time (mean ± σ): 291.9 ms ± 0.4 ms [User: 228.5 ms, System: 61.5 ms]
Range (min … max): 291.2 ms … 292.3 ms 10 runs
Summary
./git -C ../linux ls-tree -r --format='%(objectsize)' HEAD ran
1.00 ± 0.00 times faster than ./git -C ../linux ls-tree -r --format='%(objectsize:padded)' HEAD
1.01 ± 0.00 times faster than ./git_main -C ../linux ls-tree -r --format='%(objectsize)' HEAD
1.01 ± 0.00 times faster than ./git_main -C ../linux ls-tree -r --format='%(objectsize:padded)' HEAD
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>