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    runtime: speed up stack copying · aafd9640
    Josh Bleecher Snyder authored
    I was surprised to see readvarint show up in a cpu profile.
    
    Use a few simple optimizations to speed up stack copying:
    
    * Avoid making a copy of the cache.entries array or any of its elements.
    * Use a shift instead of a signed division in stackmapdata.
    * Change readvarint to return the number of bytes consumed
      rather than an updated slice.
    * Make some minor optimizations to readvarint to help the compiler.
    * Avoid called readvarint when the value fits in a single byte.
    
    The first and last optimizations are the most significant,
    although they all contribute a little.
    
    Add a benchmark for stack copying that includes lots of different
    functions in a recursive loop, to bust the cache.
    
    This might speed up other runtime operations as well;
    I only benchmarked stack copying.
    
    name                old time/op  new time/op  delta
    StackCopy-8         96.4ms ± 2%  82.7ms ± 1%  -14.24%  (p=0.000 n=20+19)
    StackCopyNoCache-8   167ms ± 1%   131ms ± 1%  -21.58%  (p=0.000 n=20+20)
    
    Change-Id: I13d5c455c65073c73b656acad86cf8e8e3c9807b
    Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/43150
    Run-TryBot: Josh Bleecher Snyder <josharian@gmail.com>
    TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarAustin Clements <austin@google.com>
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