This adds a new Buffer.AvailableBuffer method that returns
an empty buffer with a possibly non-empty capacity for use
with append-like APIs.
The typical usage pattern is something like:
b := bb.AvailableBuffer()
b = appendValue(b, v)
bb.Write(b)
It allows logic combining append-like APIs with Buffer
to avoid needing to allocate and manage buffers themselves and
allows the append-like APIs to directly write into the Buffer.
The Buffer.Write method uses the builtin copy function,
which avoids copying bytes if the source and destination are identical.
Thus, Buffer.Write is a constant-time call for this pattern.
Performance:
BenchmarkBufferAppendNoCopy 2.909 ns/op 5766942167.24 MB/s
This benchmark should only be testing the cost of bookkeeping
and never the copying of the input slice.
Thus, the MB/s should be orders of magnitude faster than RAM.
Fixes#53685
Change-Id: I0b41e54361339df309db8d03527689b123f99085
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/474635
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