[tor-commits] [tor/master] Remove a duplicate comment.

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commit 06b1ef7b76feb93243affd0ac7b62b03caf9a27d
Author: Mansour Moufid <mansourmoufid@xxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Sun Oct 19 12:59:28 2014 -0400

    Remove a duplicate comment.
---
 src/common/util.c |    6 ------
 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/common/util.c b/src/common/util.c
index 6e30c47..013a501 100644
--- a/src/common/util.c
+++ b/src/common/util.c
@@ -212,12 +212,6 @@ size_mul_check(const size_t x, const size_t y)
 void *
 tor_calloc_(size_t nmemb, size_t size DMALLOC_PARAMS)
 {
-  /* You may ask yourself, "wouldn't it be smart to use calloc instead of
-   * malloc+memset?  Perhaps libc's calloc knows some nifty optimization trick
-   * we don't!"  Indeed it does, but its optimizations are only a big win when
-   * we're allocating something very big (it knows if it just got the memory
-   * from the OS in a pre-zeroed state).  We don't want to use tor_malloc_zero
-   * for big stuff, so we don't bother with calloc. */
   tor_assert(size_mul_check(nmemb, size));
   return tor_malloc_zero_((nmemb * size) DMALLOC_FN_ARGS);
 }



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