From 76edc4f91400a608862e89ff7c98f1180b92eeda Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Robinson <tom@280north.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:47:09 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Use Array(n).join(ch) trick for strings of identical chars

---
 AppKit/CPTextField.j     | 9 +--------
 Objective-J/utilities.js | 5 +----
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/AppKit/CPTextField.j b/AppKit/CPTextField.j
index 7994ab75f..ebf0815c9 100644
--- a/AppKit/CPTextField.j
+++ b/AppKit/CPTextField.j
@@ -951,14 +951,7 @@ var secureStringForString = function(aString)
     // This is true for when aString === "" and null/undefined.
     if (!aString)
         return "";
-
-    var secureString = "",
-        length = aString.length;
-
-    while (length--)
-        secureString += CPSecureTextFieldCharacter;
-
-    return secureString;
+    return Array(aString.length).join(CPSecureTextFieldCharacter);
 }
 
 
diff --git a/Objective-J/utilities.js b/Objective-J/utilities.js
index ac2e74386..617eb9cbe 100644
--- a/Objective-J/utilities.js
+++ b/Objective-J/utilities.js
@@ -168,10 +168,7 @@ var _sprintf_justify = function(sign, prefix, string, suffix, width, leftJustify
 
 var _sprintf_pad = function(n, ch)
 {
-    var result = "";
-    for (var i = 0; i < n; i++)
-        result += ch;
-    return result;
+    return Array(Math.max(0,n)).join(ch);
 }
 
 // Base64 encoding and decoding