mozilla/rust — pull request #6647 by alexcrichton (2013-05-20 18:01:30+00:00)
Title: Add a lint mode for unnecessary allocations

This adds a lint mode for detecting unnecessary allocations on the heap. This isn't super fancy, currently it only has two rules

1. For a function's arguments, if you allocate a `[~|@]str` literal, when the type of the argument is a `&str`, emit a warning.
2. For the same case, emit warnings for boxed vectors when slices are required.

After adding the lint, I rampaged through the libraries and removed all the unnecessary allocations I could find.