Convert package filelists to an array instead of linked list

This accomplishes quite a few things with one rather invasive change.

1. Iteration is much more performant, due to a reduction in pointer
   chasing and linear item access.
2. Data structures are smaller- we no longer have the overhead of the
   linked list as the file struts are now laid out consecutively in
   memory.
3. Memory allocation has been massively reworked. Before, we would
   allocate three different pieces of memory per file item- the list
   struct, the file struct, and the copied filename. What this resulted
   in was massive fragmentation of memory when loading filelists since
   the memory allocator had to leave holes all over the place. The new
   situation here now removes the need for any list item allocation;
   allocates the file structs in contiguous memory (and reallocs as
   necessary), leaving only the strings as individually allocated. Tests
   using valgrind (massif) show some pretty significant memory
   reductions on the worst case `pacman -Ql > /dev/null` (366387 files
   on my machine):

   Before:
     Peak heap:   54,416,024 B
	 Useful heap: 36,840,692 B
	 Extra heap:  17,575,332 B

   After:
     Peak heap:   38,004,352 B
	 Useful heap: 28,101,347 B
	 Extra heap:   9,903,005 B

Several small helper methods have been introduced, including a list to
array conversion helper as well as a filelist merge sort that works
directly on arrays.

Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>

1 files changed, 32 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/libalpm/alpm_list.c b/lib/libalpm/alpm_list.c
index 071cd994..83b9824c 100644
--- a/lib/libalpm/alpm_list.c
+++ b/lib/libalpm/alpm_list.c
@@ -749,6 +749,38 @@ alpm_list_t SYMEXPORT *alpm_list_diff(const alpm_list_t *lhs,
 	return ret;
 }
 
+/**
+ * @brief Copy a list and data into a standard C array of fixed length.
+ * Note that the data elements are shallow copied so any contained pointers
+ * will point to the original data.
+ *
+ * @param list the list to copy
+ * @param n    the size of the list
+ * @param size the size of each data element
+ *
+ * @return an array version of the original list, data copied as well
+ */
+void SYMEXPORT *alpm_list_to_array(const alpm_list_t *list, size_t n,
+		size_t size)
+{
+	size_t i;
+	const alpm_list_t *item;
+	char *array;
+
+	if(n == 0) {
+		return NULL;
+	}
+
+	array = calloc(n, size);
+	if(array == NULL) {
+		return NULL;
+	}
+	for(i = 0, item = list; i < n && item; i++, item = item->next) {
+		memcpy(array + i * size, item->data, size);
+	}
+	return array;
+}
+
 /** @} */
 
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