proc_maps: Parse address and device without allocating #572
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In our project we need to parse proc maps pretty frequently and we've noticed that there are lots of small allocations coming from parsing the device and addresses from procfs' maps file.
The rough split of memory allocated is:
The two callers of strings.Split are the two parsing functions that we are optimising here. I've added some benchmarks to show the improvements.
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