From 66a5ad0d75cf90ebc22ca85d139a698090be30ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "J. Nick Koston" <nick@koston.org>
Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2026 14:06:55 -1000
Subject: [PATCH] [core] Skip zero-initialization of StaticVector data array
 (#14592)

---
 esphome/core/helpers.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/esphome/core/helpers.h b/esphome/core/helpers.h
index 6ce5de4975..11e0afe526 100644
--- a/esphome/core/helpers.h
+++ b/esphome/core/helpers.h
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ template<typename T, size_t N> class StaticVector {
   using const_reverse_iterator = std::reverse_iterator<const_iterator>;
 
  private:
-  std::array<T, N> data_{};
+  std::array<T, N> data_;  // intentionally not value-initialized to avoid memset
   size_t count_{0};
 
  public: