contentenc: MergeBlocks: short-circuit the trivial case

Saves 3% for the tar extract benchmark because we skip the allocation.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/internal/contentenc/content.go b/internal/contentenc/content.go
index 188b4e2..5d0ff49 100644
--- a/internal/contentenc/content.go
+++ b/internal/contentenc/content.go
@@ -277,6 +277,10 @@ func (be *ContentEnc) doEncryptBlock(plaintext []byte, blockNo uint64, fileID []
 // MergeBlocks - Merge newData into oldData at offset
 // New block may be bigger than both newData and oldData
 func (be *ContentEnc) MergeBlocks(oldData []byte, newData []byte, offset int) []byte {
+	// Fastpath for small-file creation
+	if len(oldData) == 0 && offset == 0 {
+		return newData
+	}
 
 	// Make block of maximum size
 	out := make([]byte, be.plainBS)