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-rw-r--r--Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst5
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS7
-rw-r--r--Objects/bytearrayobject.c16
3 files changed, 7 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst
index b879ede..5c4e0b5 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst
@@ -196,9 +196,8 @@ Optimizations
The following performance enhancements have been added:
-* Construction of ``bytes(int)`` and ``bytearray(int)`` (filled by zero bytes)
- is faster and use less memory (until the bytearray buffer is filled with
- data) for large objects. ``calloc()`` is used instead of ``malloc()`` to
+* Construction of ``bytes(int)`` (filled by zero bytes) is faster and use less
+ memory for large objects. ``calloc()`` is used instead of ``malloc()`` to
allocate memory for these objects.
* Some operations on :class:`~ipaddress.IPv4Network` and
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index be02bba..af084b8 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -26,10 +26,9 @@ Core and Builtins
internal iteration logic.
- Issue #21233: Add new C functions: PyMem_RawCalloc(), PyMem_Calloc(),
- PyObject_Calloc(), _PyObject_GC_Calloc(). bytes(int) and bytearray(int)
- are now using ``calloc()`` instead of ``malloc()`` for large objects which
- is faster and use less memory (until the bytearray buffer is filled with
- data).
+ PyObject_Calloc(), _PyObject_GC_Calloc(). bytes(int) is now using
+ ``calloc()`` instead of ``malloc()`` for large objects which is faster and
+ use less memory.
- Issue #21377: PyBytes_Concat() now tries to concatenate in-place when the
first argument has a reference count of 1. Patch by Nikolaus Rath.
diff --git a/Objects/bytearrayobject.c b/Objects/bytearrayobject.c
index 68b9c4a..5b75705 100644
--- a/Objects/bytearrayobject.c
+++ b/Objects/bytearrayobject.c
@@ -813,21 +813,9 @@ bytearray_init(PyByteArrayObject *self, PyObject *args, PyObject *kwds)
}
else {
if (count > 0) {
- void *sval;
- Py_ssize_t alloc;
-
- assert (Py_SIZE(self) == 0);
-
- alloc = count + 1;
- sval = PyObject_Calloc(1, alloc);
- if (sval == NULL)
+ if (PyByteArray_Resize((PyObject *)self, count))
return -1;
-
- PyObject_Free(self->ob_bytes);
-
- self->ob_bytes = self->ob_start = sval;
- Py_SIZE(self) = count;
- self->ob_alloc = alloc;
+ memset(PyByteArray_AS_STRING(self), 0, count);
}
return 0;
}