Some type assertions of the form _, ok := i.(T) allow efficient inlining.
Such type assertions commonly show up in type switches.
For example, with this optimization, using 6g, the length of
encoding/binary's intDataSize function shrinks from 2224 to 1728 bytes (-22%).
benchmark old ns/op new ns/op delta
BenchmarkAssertI2E2Blank 4.67 0.82 -82.44%
BenchmarkAssertE2T2Blank 4.38 0.83 -81.05%
BenchmarkAssertE2E2Blank 3.88 0.83 -78.61%
BenchmarkAssertE2E2 14.2 14.4 +1.41%
BenchmarkAssertE2T2 10.3 10.4 +0.97%
BenchmarkAssertI2E2 13.4 13.3 -0.75%
Change-Id: Ie9798c3e85432bb8e0f2c723afc376e233639df7
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/7697
Reviewed-by: Keith Randall <khr@golang.org>
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