github.com/cockroachdb/pebble@v0.0.0-20231214172447-ab4952c5f87b/internal/rawalloc/rawalloc.go (about)

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    14  
    15  package rawalloc
    16  
    17  // New returns a new byte slice of the specified length and capacity where the
    18  // backing memory is uninitialized. This differs from make([]byte) which
    19  // guarantees that the backing memory for the slice is initialized to zero. Use
    20  // carefully.
    21  func New(len, cap int) []byte {
    22  	ptr := mallocgc(uintptr(cap), nil, false)
    23  	return (*[maxArrayLen]byte)(ptr)[:len:cap]
    24  }