The code to do the conversion is smaller than the
call to the runtime.
The 1-result asserts need to call panic if they fail, but that
code is out of line.
The only conversions left in the runtime are those which
might allocate and those which might need to generate an itab.
Given the following types:
type E interface{}
type I interface { foo() }
type I2 iterface { foo(); bar() }
type Big [10]int
func (b Big) foo() { ... }
This CL inlines the following conversions:
was assertE2T
var e E = ...
b := i.(Big)
was assertE2T2
var e E = ...
b, ok := i.(Big)
was assertI2T
var i I = ...
b := i.(Big)
was assertI2T2
var i I = ...
b, ok := i.(Big)
was assertI2E
var i I = ...
e := i.(E)
was assertI2E2
var i I = ...
e, ok := i.(E)
These are the remaining runtime calls:
convT2E:
var b Big = ...
var e E = b
convT2I:
var b Big = ...
var i I = b
convI2I:
var i2 I2 = ...
var i I = i2
assertE2I:
var e E = ...
i := e.(I)
assertE2I2:
var e E = ...
i, ok := e.(I)
assertI2I:
var i I = ...
i2 := i.(I2)
assertI2I2:
var i I = ...
i2, ok := i.(I2)
Fixes#17405Fixes#8422
Change-Id: Ida2367bf8ce3cd2c6bb599a1814f1d275afabe21
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/32313
Run-TryBot: Keith Randall <khr@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: David Chase <drchase@google.com>
When T is a scalar, there are no runtime calls
required, which makes this a clear win.
encoding/binary:
WriteInts-8 958ns ± 3% 864ns ± 2% -9.80% (p=0.000 n=15+15)
This also considerably shrinks a core fmt
routine:
Before: "".(*pp).printArg t=1 size=3952 args=0x20 locals=0xf0
After: "".(*pp).printArg t=1 size=2624 args=0x20 locals=0x98
Unfortunately, I find it very hard to get stable
numbers out of the fmt benchmarks due to thermal scaling.
Change-Id: I1278006b030253bf8e48dc7631d18985cdaa143d
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/26659
Run-TryBot: Josh Bleecher Snyder <josharian@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Keith Randall <khr@golang.org>
These can be implemented with just a compare and a move instruction.
Do so, avoiding the overhead of a call into the runtime.
These assertions are a significant cost in Go code that uses interface{}
as a safe alternative to C's void* (or unsafe.Pointer), such as the
current version of the Go compiler.
*T here includes pointer to T but also any Go type represented as
a single pointer (chan, func, map). It does not include [1]*T or struct{*int}.
That requires more work in other parts of the compiler; there is a TODO.
Change-Id: I7ff681c20d2c3eb6ad11dd7b3a37b1f3dda23965
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/7862
Reviewed-by: Rob Pike <r@golang.org>
