A user reported heavy contention on fmt's printer cache. Avoid
fmt.Sprint. We have to do reflection anyway, and there was
already an asString function to use strconv, so use it.
This CL also eliminates a redundant allocation + copy when
scanning into *[]byte (avoiding the intermediate string)
and avoids an extra alloc when assigning to a caller's RawBytes
(trying to reuse the caller's memory).
Fixes#7086
R=golang-codereviews, nightlyone
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/50240044
Make the copy directly in the convert switch instead of an extra loop.
Also stops converting nil-[]byte to zero-[]byte when assigning to *interface
R=golang-dev, bradfitz
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7962044
E.g conversions from numeric types to RawBytes are missing, what makes RawBytes unusable in some cases.
R=golang-dev, bradfitz
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7783046
- convert from nil pointers to the nil interface{}
- dereference non-nil pointers
- convert from nil interface{}s to nil pointers
- allocate pointers for non-nil interface{}s
- tests for all of the above
R=golang-dev, bradfitz, rsc, rogpeppe
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/5630052
