From 7911965fe922a4412aa5e56eb32a2a15c67e67b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mike Solomon <msolo@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:34:49 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] io/ioutil: improve performance of ioutil.Discard Fixes #2084.

R=bradfitz, rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4817041
---
 src/pkg/io/ioutil/ioutil.go | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/pkg/io/ioutil/ioutil.go b/src/pkg/io/ioutil/ioutil.go
index f79bf87f5cc..fffa1320f59 100644
--- a/src/pkg/io/ioutil/ioutil.go
+++ b/src/pkg/io/ioutil/ioutil.go
@@ -108,6 +108,23 @@ func (devNull) Write(p []byte) (int, os.Error) {
 	return len(p), nil
 }
 
+var blackHole = make([]byte, 8192)
+
+func (devNull) ReadFrom(r io.Reader) (n int64, err os.Error) {
+	readSize := 0
+	for {
+		readSize, err = r.Read(blackHole)
+		n += int64(readSize)
+		if err != nil {
+			if err == os.EOF {
+				return n, nil
+			}
+			return
+		}
+	}
+	panic("unreachable")
+}
+
 // Discard is an io.Writer on which all Write calls succeed
 // without doing anything.
 var Discard io.Writer = devNull(0)