strbuf_getwholeline calls fgetc in a tight loop. Using the
getc form, which can be implemented as a macro, should be
faster (and we do not care about it evaluating our argument
twice, as we just have a plain variable).
On my glibc system, running "git rev-parse
refs/heads/does-not-exist" on a file with an extremely large
(1.6GB) packed-refs file went from (best of 3 runs):
real 0m19.383s
user 0m18.876s
sys 0m0.528s
to:
real 0m18.900s
user 0m18.472s
sys 0m0.448s
for a wall-clock speedup of 2.5%.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>