Prior to this CL, all runtime conversions
from a concrete value to an interface went
through one of two runtime calls: convT2E or convT2I.
However, in practice, basic types are very common.
Specializing convT2x for those basic types allows
for a more efficient implementation for those types.
For basic scalars and strings, allocation and copying
can use the same methods as normal code.
For pointer-free types, allocation can occur without
zeroing, and copying can take place without GC calls.
For slices, copying is cheaper and simpler.
While compiling make.bash, 93% of all convT2x calls
are now to one of these specialized convT2x call.
Within specialized convT2x routines, it is cheap to check
for a zero value, in a way that it is not in general.
When we detect a zero value there, we return a pointer
to zeroVal, rather than allocating.
- g31(str()) // ERROR "live at call to convT2E: .autotmp_[0-9]+$" "live at call to g31: .autotmp_[0-9]+$"
+ g31(str()) // ERROR "live at call to convT2Estring: .autotmp_[0-9]+$" "live at call to g31: .autotmp_[0-9]+$"
}
if b2 {
- h31(str()) // ERROR "live at call to convT2E: .autotmp_[0-9]+ .autotmp_[0-9]+$" "live at call to h31: .autotmp_[0-9]+$" "live at call to newobject: .autotmp_[0-9]+$"
+ h31(str()) // ERROR "live at call to convT2Estring: .autotmp_[0-9]+ .autotmp_[0-9]+$" "live at call to h31: .autotmp_[0-9]+$" "live at call to newobject: .autotmp_[0-9]+$"
}
if b3 {
- panic(str()) // ERROR "live at call to convT2E: .autotmp_[0-9]+$" "live at call to gopanic: .autotmp_[0-9]+$"
+ panic(str()) // ERROR "live at call to convT2Estring: .autotmp_[0-9]+$" "live at call to gopanic: .autotmp_[0-9]+$"