From 98697f4d84583fb4228bebc60e0ae1014f5948cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guillaume Ballet <3272758+gballet@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2026 13:40:11 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] review feedback: reduce memory allocations

---
 trie/bintrie/key_encoding.go | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/trie/bintrie/key_encoding.go b/trie/bintrie/key_encoding.go
index 5492d3822e..9b98bee491 100644
--- a/trie/bintrie/key_encoding.go
+++ b/trie/bintrie/key_encoding.go
@@ -54,17 +54,17 @@ func getBinaryTreeKey(addr common.Address, offset []byte, overflow bool) []byte
 	hasher := sha256.New()
 	hasher.Write(zeroHash[:12])
 	hasher.Write(addr[:])
+	var buf [32]byte
 	// key is big endian, hashed value is little endian
 	for i := range offset[:31] {
-		hasher.Write([]byte{offset[30-i]})
+		buf[i] = offset[30-i]
 	}
 	if overflow {
 		// Overflow detected when adding MAIN_STORAGE_OFFSET,
 		// reporting it in the shifter 32 byte value.
-		hasher.Write([]byte{1})
-	} else {
-		hasher.Write([]byte{0})
+		buf[31] = 1
 	}
+	hasher.Write(buf[:])
 	k := hasher.Sum(nil)
 	k[31] = offset[31]
 	return k