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Add a lint mode for unnecessary allocations - #6647

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This adds a lint mode for detecting unnecessary allocations on the heap. This isn't super fancy, currently it only has two rules

  1. For a function's arguments, if you allocate a [~|@]str literal, when the type of the argument is a &str, emit a warning.
  2. For the same case, emit warnings for boxed vectors when slices are required.

After adding the lint, I rampaged through the libraries and removed all the unnecessary allocations I could find.

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jdm commented May 20, 2013

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\o/

@graydon

graydon commented May 20, 2013

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Oh this is so nice. Hurrah!

(Wishlist: another one that detects when an argument is passed by ~ or @ but never escapes the function, so can/should be a borrow?)

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sanxiyn commented May 21, 2013

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I think this needs a test.

bors added a commit that referenced this pull request May 21, 2013
This adds a lint mode for detecting unnecessary allocations on the heap. This isn't super fancy, currently it only has two rules

1. For a function's arguments, if you allocate a `[~|@]str` literal, when the type of the argument is a `&str`, emit a warning.
2. For the same case, emit warnings for boxed vectors when slices are required.

After adding the lint, I rampaged through the libraries and removed all the unnecessary allocations I could find.
@bors bors closed this May 21, 2013
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