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bradfitz opened this issue May 17, 2013 · 9 comments
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io: Copy makes garbage #5509

bradfitz opened this issue May 17, 2013 · 9 comments
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io.Copy generates unnecessary garbage.

Possible fix: https://golang.org/cl/7206048/
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Comment 1:

Labels changed: added garbage, pero, removed gara.

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Comment 2:

Labels changed: added performance, removed pero.

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rsc commented Nov 27, 2013

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Labels changed: added go1.3maybe.

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rsc commented Dec 4, 2013

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Labels changed: added release-none, removed go1.3maybe.

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rsc commented Dec 4, 2013

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Labels changed: added repo-main.

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dvyukov commented Jan 27, 2015

Looks like a good fit for sync.Pool. But do we want io to depend on sync (the only other package that sync depends on is sync/atomic)?

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The io package already depends on sync. http://golang.org/src/io/pipe.go#L10 (This dependency is listed in src/go/build/deps_test.go.)

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dvyukov commented Jan 28, 2015

aha!

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dvyukov commented Jan 28, 2015

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 5:58 PM, 'Russ Cox (Gerrit)' wrote:

There's no guarantee that old data isn't leaking, that a bad Reader or
Writer isn't holding onto the buffer, and so on. I don't believe this is an
appropriate use of a Pool.

See the following changes for discussion:
https://codereview.appspot.com/7206048/
https://go-review.googlesource.com/#/c/3413/

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