diff --git a/manifest b/manifest
index 97790316a6..b5d538d16d 100644
--- a/manifest
+++ b/manifest
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
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-C Suppress\smore\sinstances\sof\sunnecessary\sOP_IsNull\sand\sOP_Affinity\sopcodes.
-D 2009-11-18T01:25:27
+C Performance\simprovement\sby\savoiding\sunnecessary\scalls\sto\smemset().
+D 2009-11-18T23:01:26
 F Makefile.arm-wince-mingw32ce-gcc fcd5e9cd67fe88836360bb4f9ef4cb7f8e2fb5a0
 F Makefile.in 53f3dfa49f28ab5b80cb083fb7c9051e596bcfa1
 F Makefile.linux-gcc d53183f4aa6a9192d249731c90dbdffbd2c68654
@@ -109,8 +109,8 @@ F src/auth.c 523da7fb4979469955d822ff9298352d6b31de34
 F src/backup.c 744e98359dfc79fed43e8dec911e33e108b06aae
 F src/bitvec.c 06ad2c36a9c3819c0b9cbffec7b15f58d5d834e0
 F src/btmutex.c 96a12f50f7a17475155971a241d85ec5171573ff
-F src/btree.c 4076d11eaf78382514707ee7013cb0e2e59c1437
-F src/btree.h ddd915fd44fea35f98b5505513f6a40a3308c7a6
+F src/btree.c d37a90bbcc30f92f1ea772de94cd4225df1801ef
+F src/btree.h 7944a9dac59eb3e541aad45fd2747f1051e7c63d
 F src/btreeInt.h 54f4245decd0409ea52cf9aee422d3d761d7ac10
 F src/build.c a48e74d24897100017d39ceba5de255e53ec9488
 F src/callback.c 908f3e0172c3d4058f4ca0acd42c637c52e9669f
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ F src/update.c 8efeb09822886e33c265dd96d29a3d865ea6dcf2
 F src/utf.c dad16adcc0c35ef2437dca125a4b07419d361052
 F src/util.c ad4f03079ba0fe83590d1cc9197e8e4844e38592
 F src/vacuum.c 03309a08d549f9389cc3a3589afd4fadbdaf0679
-F src/vdbe.c ed60d48b50b0e21f3ff87936f5c3d5667d4f8b8b
+F src/vdbe.c 95fa2b51a4e602f74594bd9a0f679b7eaf44f9c0
 F src/vdbe.h 5f35750615163d1064052785b4a9f0eb004a720d
 F src/vdbeInt.h d7ea821ac7813c9bea0fe87558c35e07b2c7c44d
 F src/vdbeapi.c 17680ab7a75ec938c5ba039a6c87489d01faf2cb
@@ -771,14 +771,14 @@ F tool/speedtest2.tcl ee2149167303ba8e95af97873c575c3e0fab58ff
 F tool/speedtest8.c 2902c46588c40b55661e471d7a86e4dd71a18224
 F tool/speedtest8inst1.c 293327bc76823f473684d589a8160bde1f52c14e
 F tool/vdbe-compress.tcl d70ea6d8a19e3571d7ab8c9b75cba86d1173ff0f
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diff --git a/manifest.uuid b/manifest.uuid
index 4ac93b9fc0..909f0247d1 100644
--- a/manifest.uuid
+++ b/manifest.uuid
@@ -1 +1 @@
-bf6c0bd1c5568c6292ea0a64c8a5071e1bd3079a
\ No newline at end of file
+85940468e6f93f7c493fbc129f13cf6233c5d0c0
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/btree.c b/src/btree.c
index cbf93d222e..c02f070e09 100644
--- a/src/btree.c
+++ b/src/btree.c
@@ -3278,8 +3278,8 @@ int sqlite3BtreeSavepoint(Btree *p, int op, int iSavepoint){
 ** root page of a b-tree.  If it is not, then the cursor acquired
 ** will not work correctly.
 **
-** It is assumed that the sqlite3BtreeCursorSize() bytes of memory 
-** pointed to by pCur have been zeroed by the caller.
+** It is assumed that the sqlite3BtreeCursorZero() has been called
+** on pCur to initialize the memory space prior to invoking this routine.
 */
 static int btreeCursor(
   Btree *p,                              /* The btree */
@@ -3355,6 +3355,18 @@ int sqlite3BtreeCursorSize(void){
   return ROUND8(sizeof(BtCursor));
 }
 
+/*
+** Initialize memory that will be converted into a BtCursor object.
+**
+** The simple approach here would be to memset() the entire object
+** to zero.  But it turns out that the apPage[] and aiIdx[] arrays
+** do not need to be zeroed and they are large, so we can save a lot
+** of run-time by skipping the initialization of those elements.
+*/
+void sqlite3BtreeCursorZero(BtCursor *p){
+  memset(p, 0, offsetof(BtCursor, iPage));
+}
+
 /*
 ** Set the cached rowid value of every cursor in the same database file
 ** as pCur and having the same root page number as pCur.  The value is
diff --git a/src/btree.h b/src/btree.h
index 93de4d1c38..7852d4ae6a 100644
--- a/src/btree.h
+++ b/src/btree.h
@@ -148,6 +148,7 @@ int sqlite3BtreeCursor(
   BtCursor *pCursor                    /* Space to write cursor structure */
 );
 int sqlite3BtreeCursorSize(void);
+void sqlite3BtreeCursorZero(BtCursor*);
 
 int sqlite3BtreeCloseCursor(BtCursor*);
 int sqlite3BtreeMovetoUnpacked(
diff --git a/src/vdbe.c b/src/vdbe.c
index 4ea20b752f..90dd90e67b 100644
--- a/src/vdbe.c
+++ b/src/vdbe.c
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ static VdbeCursor *allocateCursor(
   }
   if( SQLITE_OK==sqlite3VdbeMemGrow(pMem, nByte, 0) ){
     p->apCsr[iCur] = pCx = (VdbeCursor*)pMem->z;
-    memset(pCx, 0, nByte);
+    memset(pCx, 0, sizeof(VdbeCursor));
     pCx->iDb = iDb;
     pCx->nField = nField;
     if( nField ){
@@ -224,6 +224,7 @@ static VdbeCursor *allocateCursor(
     if( isBtreeCursor ){
       pCx->pCursor = (BtCursor*)
           &pMem->z[ROUND8(sizeof(VdbeCursor))+2*nField*sizeof(u32)];
+      sqlite3BtreeCursorZero(pCx->pCursor);
     }
   }
   return pCx;