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1583: Remove unsafe in with_nix_path() for [u8] r=asomers a=rtzoeller
Remove use of `unsafe` in the implementation of `with_nix_path()` for `[u8]`. This also comes with a nice determinism win across input sizes, and is fairly performance neutral (slightly slower for small strings, much faster for large strings).
I suspect the performance degradation in the existing implementation is related to the following note in the `CStr::from_ptr()` documentation:
> Note: This operation is intended to be a 0-cost cast but it is currently implemented with an up-front calculation of the length of the string. This is not guaranteed to always be the case.
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Tested with `cargo 1.57.0-nightly (7fbbf4e8f 2021-10-19)`, with variations of the following benchmarking code:
```rs
#[bench]
fn bench_with_nix_path_1024(b: &mut test::Bencher) {
let bytes = std::hint::black_box([70u8; 1024]);
b.iter(|| {
bytes.with_nix_path(|cstr| {
std::hint::black_box(&cstr);
}).unwrap();
})
}
```
| Length | Before Change | After Change |
|--------|-----------------------|-----------------------|
| 16 | 37 ns/iter (+/- 0) | 44 ns/iter (+/- 0) |
| 64 | 39 ns/iter (+/- 0) | 44 ns/iter (+/- 0) |
| 256 | 84 ns/iter (+/- 0) | 48 ns/iter (+/- 0) |
| 1024 | 232 ns/iter (+/- 1) | 50 ns/iter (+/- 1) |
| 4095 | 796 ns/iter (+/- 8) | 62 ns/iter (+/- 2) |
Co-authored-by: Ryan Zoeller <[email protected]>
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