Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > sha1-array.c | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > sha1-array.h | 3 +++ > 2 files changed, 42 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/sha1-array.c b/sha1-array.c > index 265941fbf40..10eb08b425e 100644 > --- a/sha1-array.c > +++ b/sha1-array.c > @@ -77,3 +77,42 @@ int oid_array_for_each_unique(struct oid_array *array, > } > return 0; > } > + > +int oid_array_remove_if(struct oid_array *array, > + for_each_oid_fn fn, > + void *data) > +{ > + int i, j; > + char *to_remove = xcalloc(array->nr, sizeof(char)); > + > + /* No oid_array_sort() here! See the api-oid-array.txt docs! */ > + > + for (i = 0; i < array->nr; i++) { > + int ret = fn(array->oid + i, data); > + if (ret) > + to_remove[i] = 1; > + } Doing the same without this secondary array and loop, i.e. for (src = dst = 0; src < array->nr; src++) { if (!fn(&array->oid[src], cbdata)) { if (dst < src) oidcpy(&array->oid[dst], &array->oid[src]); dst++; } } array->nr = dst; would be no less efficient. The only reason why you might want to measure move-span by a secondary array and preliminary counting loop like your version does is that moving contiguous area of memory may be more efficient than moving only by a single oid sized chunks, but as far as I can tell you are not doing that "optimization", either. I doubt that remove_if() is particularly a good name. A version of this function, for which polarity of fn() is reversed, can be called "grep", or "filter", I think, and would be more understandable.