From 4d60d936edce2ab49cb36c47d0d1bdc0029a0ed2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Muhammad Syafri, S.Kom"
 <105954036+Jualhosting@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2026 21:20:33 +0700
Subject: [PATCH] perf(replacer): optimize memory allocation for file
 placeholders (#7773)

Co-authored-by: jalikajalika5 <105954036+jalikajalika5@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 replacer.go | 12 ++++--------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/replacer.go b/replacer.go
index 2ab02b602..2fa8ef137 100644
--- a/replacer.go
+++ b/replacer.go
@@ -427,14 +427,10 @@ func readFileIntoBuffer(filename string, size int) ([]byte, error) {
 	}
 	defer file.Close()
 
-	buffer := make([]byte, size)
-	n, err := file.Read(buffer)
-	if err != nil && err != io.EOF {
-		return nil, err
-	}
-
-	// slice the buffer to the actual size
-	return buffer[:n], nil
+	// io.LimitReader ensures we never read more than 'size' bytes.
+	// io.ReadAll starts with a small buffer and grows it as needed,
+	// preventing a massive 1MB allocation for small files.
+	return io.ReadAll(io.LimitReader(file, int64(size)))
 }
 
 // ReplacementFunc is a function that is called when a