Jeff King authored Apr 16, 2015 and Junio C Hamano committed Apr 16, 2015

As with the recent speedup to strbuf_addch, we can avoid
calling strbuf_grow() in a tight loop of single-character
adds by instead checking strbuf_avail.

Note that we would instead call strbuf_addch directly here,
but it does more work than necessary: it will NUL-terminate
the result for each character read. Instead, in this loop we
read the characters one by one and then add the terminator
manually at the end.

Running "git rev-parse refs/heads/does-not-exist" on a repo
with an extremely large (1.6GB) packed-refs file went from
(best-of-5):

  real    0m10.948s
  user    0m10.548s
  sys     0m0.412s

to:

  real    0m8.601s
  user    0m8.084s
  sys     0m0.524s

for a wall-clock speedup of 21%.

Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>