reflect: sort exported methods first

By moving exported methods to the front of method lists, filtering
down to only the exported methods just needs a count of how many
exported methods exist, which the compiler can statically
provide. This allows getting rid of the exported method cache.

For #22075.

Change-Id: I8eeb274563a2940e1347c34d673f843ae2569064
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/100846Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>

src/cmd/compile/internal/gc/reflect.go

@@ -51,21 +51,19 @@ type Sig struct {
 	offset int32
 }
 
-// siglt sorts method signatures by name, then package path.
+// siglt sorts method signatures by name with exported methods first,
+// and then non-exported methods by their package path.
 func siglt(a, b *Sig) bool {
+	if (a.pkg == nil) != (b.pkg == nil) {
+		return a.pkg == nil
+	}
 	if a.name != b.name {
 		return a.name < b.name
 	}
-	if a.pkg == b.pkg {
-		return false
-	}
-	if a.pkg == nil {
-		return true
-	}
-	if b.pkg == nil {
-		return false
+	if a.pkg != nil && a.pkg != b.pkg {
+		return a.pkg.Path < b.pkg.Path
 	}
-	return a.pkg.Path < b.pkg.Path
+	return false
 }
 
 // Builds a type representing a Bucket structure for
@@ -403,7 +401,7 @@ func methods(t *types.Type) []*Sig {
 
 		method := f.Sym
 		if method == nil {
-			continue
+			break
 		}
 
 		// get receiver type for this particular method.
@@ -683,12 +681,13 @@ func dextratype(lsym *obj.LSym, ot int, t *types.Type, dataAdd int) int {
 	if mcount != int(uint16(mcount)) {
 		Fatalf("too many methods on %v: %d", t, mcount)
 	}
+	xcount := sort.Search(mcount, func(i int) bool { return m[i].pkg != nil })
 	if dataAdd != int(uint32(dataAdd)) {
 		Fatalf("methods are too far away on %v: %d", t, dataAdd)
 	}
 
 	ot = duint16(lsym, ot, uint16(mcount))
-	ot = duint16(lsym, ot, 0)
+	ot = duint16(lsym, ot, uint16(xcount))
 	ot = duint32(lsym, ot, uint32(dataAdd))
 	ot = duint32(lsym, ot, 0)
 	return ot

src/cmd/compile/internal/gc/reflect_test.go

@@ -14,23 +14,27 @@ import (
 func TestSortingBySigLT(t *testing.T) {
 	data := []*Sig{
 		&Sig{name: "b", pkg: &types.Pkg{Path: "abc"}},
-		&Sig{name: "b", pkg: nil},
-		&Sig{name: "c", pkg: nil},
+		&Sig{name: "B", pkg: nil},
+		&Sig{name: "C", pkg: nil},
 		&Sig{name: "c", pkg: &types.Pkg{Path: "uvw"}},
-		&Sig{name: "c", pkg: nil},
+		&Sig{name: "C", pkg: nil},
+		&Sig{name: "φ", pkg: &types.Pkg{Path: "gr"}},
+		&Sig{name: "Φ", pkg: nil},
 		&Sig{name: "b", pkg: &types.Pkg{Path: "xyz"}},
 		&Sig{name: "a", pkg: &types.Pkg{Path: "abc"}},
-		&Sig{name: "b", pkg: nil},
+		&Sig{name: "B", pkg: nil},
 	}
 	want := []*Sig{
+		&Sig{name: "B", pkg: nil},
+		&Sig{name: "B", pkg: nil},
+		&Sig{name: "C", pkg: nil},
+		&Sig{name: "C", pkg: nil},
+		&Sig{name: "Φ", pkg: nil},
 		&Sig{name: "a", pkg: &types.Pkg{Path: "abc"}},
-		&Sig{name: "b", pkg: nil},
-		&Sig{name: "b", pkg: nil},
 		&Sig{name: "b", pkg: &types.Pkg{Path: "abc"}},
 		&Sig{name: "b", pkg: &types.Pkg{Path: "xyz"}},
-		&Sig{name: "c", pkg: nil},
-		&Sig{name: "c", pkg: nil},
 		&Sig{name: "c", pkg: &types.Pkg{Path: "uvw"}},
+		&Sig{name: "φ", pkg: &types.Pkg{Path: "gr"}},
 	}
 	if len(data) != len(want) {
 		t.Fatal("want and data must match")

src/cmd/compile/internal/gc/subr.go

@@ -373,7 +373,8 @@ func saveorignode(n *Node) {
 	n.Orig = norig
 }
 
-// methcmp sorts by symbol, then by package path for unexported symbols.
+// methcmp sorts methods by name with exported methods first,
+// and then non-exported methods by their package path.
 type methcmp []*types.Field
 
 func (x methcmp) Len() int      { return len(x) }
@@ -381,22 +382,31 @@ func (x methcmp) Swap(i, j int) { x[i], x[j] = x[j], x[i] }
 func (x methcmp) Less(i, j int) bool {
 	a := x[i]
 	b := x[j]
-	if a.Sym == nil && b.Sym == nil {
+	if a.Sym == b.Sym {
 		return false
 	}
+
+	// Blank methods to the end.
 	if a.Sym == nil {
-		return true
+		return false
 	}
 	if b.Sym == nil {
-		return false
+		return true
 	}
+
+	// Exported methods to the front.
+	ea := exportname(a.Sym.Name)
+	eb := exportname(b.Sym.Name)
+	if ea != eb {
+		return ea
+	}
+
+	// Sort by name and then package.
 	if a.Sym.Name != b.Sym.Name {
 		return a.Sym.Name < b.Sym.Name
 	}
-	if !exportname(a.Sym.Name) {
-		if a.Sym.Pkg.Path != b.Sym.Pkg.Path {
-			return a.Sym.Pkg.Path < b.Sym.Pkg.Path
-		}
+	if !ea && a.Sym.Pkg.Path != b.Sym.Pkg.Path {
+		return a.Sym.Pkg.Path < b.Sym.Pkg.Path
 	}
 
 	return false

src/reflect/type.go

@@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ type method struct {
 type uncommonType struct {
 	pkgPath nameOff // import path; empty for built-in types like int, string
 	mcount  uint16  // number of methods
-	_       uint16  // unused
+	xcount  uint16  // number of exported methods
 	moff    uint32  // offset from this uncommontype to [mcount]method
 	_       uint32  // unused
 }
@@ -639,6 +639,13 @@ func (t *uncommonType) methods() []method {
 	return (*[1 << 16]method)(add(unsafe.Pointer(t), uintptr(t.moff), "t.mcount > 0"))[:t.mcount:t.mcount]
 }
 
+func (t *uncommonType) exportedMethods() []method {
+	if t.xcount == 0 {
+		return nil
+	}
+	return (*[1 << 16]method)(add(unsafe.Pointer(t), uintptr(t.moff), "t.xcount > 0"))[:t.xcount:t.xcount]
+}
+
 // resolveNameOff resolves a name offset from a base pointer.
 // The (*rtype).nameOff method is a convenience wrapper for this function.
 // Implemented in the runtime package.
@@ -783,43 +790,12 @@ func (t *rtype) pointers() bool { return t.kind&kindNoPointers == 0 }
 
 func (t *rtype) common() *rtype { return t }
 
-var methodCache sync.Map // map[*rtype][]method
-
 func (t *rtype) exportedMethods() []method {
-	methodsi, found := methodCache.Load(t)
-	if found {
-		return methodsi.([]method)
-	}
-
 	ut := t.uncommon()
 	if ut == nil {
 		return nil
 	}
-	allm := ut.methods()
-	allExported := true
-	for _, m := range allm {
-		name := t.nameOff(m.name)
-		if !name.isExported() {
-			allExported = false
-			break
-		}
-	}
-	var methods []method
-	if allExported {
-		methods = allm
-	} else {
-		methods = make([]method, 0, len(allm))
-		for _, m := range allm {
-			name := t.nameOff(m.name)
-			if name.isExported() {
-				methods = append(methods, m)
-			}
-		}
-		methods = methods[:len(methods):len(methods)]
-	}
-
-	methodsi, _ = methodCache.LoadOrStore(t, methods)
-	return methodsi.([]method)
+	return ut.exportedMethods()
 }
 
 func (t *rtype) NumMethod() int {
@@ -827,9 +803,6 @@ func (t *rtype) NumMethod() int {
 		tt := (*interfaceType)(unsafe.Pointer(t))
 		return tt.NumMethod()
 	}
-	if t.tflag&tflagUncommon == 0 {
-		return 0 // avoid methodCache synchronization
-	}
 	return len(t.exportedMethods())
 }
 
@@ -876,16 +849,10 @@ func (t *rtype) MethodByName(name string) (m Method, ok bool) {
 	if ut == nil {
 		return Method{}, false
 	}
-	utmethods := ut.methods()
-	var eidx int
-	for i := 0; i < int(ut.mcount); i++ {
-		p := utmethods[i]
-		pname := t.nameOff(p.name)
-		if pname.isExported() {
-			if pname.name() == name {
-				return t.Method(eidx), true
-			}
-			eidx++
+	// TODO(mdempsky): Binary search.
+	for i, p := range ut.exportedMethods() {
+		if t.nameOff(p.name).name() == name {
+			return t.Method(i), true
 		}
 	}
 	return Method{}, false
@@ -2627,7 +2594,12 @@ func StructOf(fields []StructField) Type {
 	default:
 		panic("reflect.StructOf: too many methods")
 	}
+	// TODO(sbinet): Once we allow embedding multiple types,
+	// methods will need to be sorted like the compiler does.
+	// TODO(sbinet): Once we allow non-exported methods, we will
+	// need to compute xcount as the number of exported methods.
 	ut.mcount = uint16(len(methods))
+	ut.xcount = ut.mcount
 	ut.moff = uint32(unsafe.Sizeof(uncommonType{}))
 
 	if len(fs) > 0 {

src/runtime/type.go

@@ -329,7 +329,7 @@ type method struct {
 type uncommontype struct {
 	pkgpath nameOff
 	mcount  uint16 // number of methods
-	_       uint16 // unused
+	xcount  uint16 // number of exported methods
 	moff    uint32 // offset from this uncommontype to [mcount]method
 	_       uint32 // unused
 }