commit 7e08c7f43da876bc451b774808e323215a193abd
author Daniel Martí <mvdan@mvdan.cc> Mon Apr 22 23:36:43 2019 +0700
committer Daniel Martí <mvdan@mvdan.cc> Tue Apr 23 05:54:51 2019 +0000
tree 94f18a6c5119d3a5432a462a3cebd04d6891d196
parent 980a57a84b932b43fc2d3ab699f7c235472009ab

encoding/json: index names for the struct decoder

In the common case, structs have a handful of fields and most inputs
match struct field names exactly.

The previous code would do a linear search over the fields, stopping at
the first exact match, and otherwise using the first case insensitive
match.

This is unfortunate, because it means that for the common case, we'd do
a linear search with bytes.Equal. Even for structs with only two or
three fields, that is pretty wasteful.

Worse even, up until the exact match was found via the linear search,
all previous fields would run their equalFold functions, which aren't
cheap even in the simple case.

Instead, cache a map along with the field list that indexes the fields
by their name. This way, a case sensitive field search doesn't involve a
linear search, nor does it involve any equalFold func calls.

This patch should also slightly speed up cases where there's a case
insensitive match but not a case sensitive one, as then we'd avoid
calling bytes.Equal on all the fields. Though that's not a common case,
and there are no benchmarks for it.

name           old time/op    new time/op    delta
CodeDecoder-8    11.0ms ± 0%    10.6ms ± 1%  -4.42%  (p=0.000 n=9+10)

name           old speed      new speed      delta
CodeDecoder-8   176MB/s ± 0%   184MB/s ± 1%  +4.62%  (p=0.000 n=9+10)

name           old alloc/op   new alloc/op   delta
CodeDecoder-8    2.28MB ± 0%    2.28MB ± 0%    ~     (p=0.725 n=10+10)

name           old allocs/op  new allocs/op  delta
CodeDecoder-8     76.9k ± 0%     76.9k ± 0%    ~     (all equal)

Updates #28923.

Change-Id: I9929c1f06c76505e5b96914199315dbdaae5dc76
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/172918
Run-TryBot: Daniel Martí <mvdan@mvdan.cc>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>