package bytepool

import "sync"

// BytePool is a cached pool of reusable byte slices.
type BytePool struct {
	sync.Pool
}

// New allocates a new BytePool with slices of equal length and capacity.
func New(length int) *BytePool {
	var bp BytePool
	bp.Pool.New = func() interface{} {
		return make([]byte, length, length)
	}
	return &bp
}

// Get returns a byte slice from the pool.
func (bp *BytePool) Get() []byte {
	return bp.Pool.Get().([]byte)
}

// Put returns a byte slice to the pool.
func (bp *BytePool) Put(b []byte) {
	b = b[:cap(b)]
	// Zero out the bytes.
	// Apparently this specific expression is optimized by the compiler, see
	// github.com/golang/go/issues/5373.
	for i := range b {
		b[i] = 0
	}
	bp.Pool.Put(b)
}