diff --git a/changes/ticket28852 b/changes/ticket28852
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a58cc3ba0e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changes/ticket28852
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+  o Minor features (performance):
+    - Remove a needless memset() call from get_token_arguments,
+      thereby speeding up the tokenization of directory objects by about
+      20%. Closes ticket 28852.
diff --git a/src/feature/dirparse/parsecommon.c b/src/feature/dirparse/parsecommon.c
index e00af0eea2..5280f2ed2f 100644
--- a/src/feature/dirparse/parsecommon.c
+++ b/src/feature/dirparse/parsecommon.c
@@ -169,7 +169,6 @@ get_token_arguments(memarea_t *area, directory_token_t *tok,
   char *cp = mem;
   int j = 0;
   char *args[MAX_ARGS];
-  memset(args, 0, sizeof(args));
   while (*cp) {
     if (j == MAX_ARGS)
       return -1;