The change reduces heap allocations by using file mapping instead of
reading a whole file into memory just to create a slightly modified
copy of it.
For this small test case:
moc <<EOF
class X : public QObject { Q_OBJECT Q_PROPERTY(int x) };
EOF
massif shows improvement from:
peak cost: "26,8 KB" heap "2,1 KB" heap extra "0 B" stacks
to:
peak cost: "11,3 KB" heap "2,2 KB" heap extra "0 B" stacks
In general, depending on source file high peak memory usage is reduced
from few to few hundreds KB, especially that the allocation used to
happen for each include file too.
Change-Id: I9c1c848be848444156af25a991b67161fb9d8b29
Reviewed-by: Olivier Goffart <ogoffart@woboq.com>
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