encoding/json: avoid work when unquoting strings, take 2
This is a re-submission of CL 151157, since it was reverted in CL 190909
due to an introduced crash found by a fuzzer. The revert CL included
regression tests, while this CL includes a fixed version of the original
change.
In particular, what we forgot in the original optimization was that we
still need the length and trailing quote checks at the beginning of
unquoteBytes. Without those, we could end up in a crash later on.
We can work out how many bytes can be unquoted trivially in
rescanLiteral, which already iterates over a string's bytes.
Removing the extra loop in unquoteBytes simplifies the function and
speeds it up, especially when decoding simple strings, which are common.
While at it, we can remove the check that s[0]=='"', since all call
sites already meet that condition.
name old time/op new time/op delta
CodeDecoder-8 10.6ms ± 2% 10.5ms ± 1% -1.01% (p=0.004 n=20+10)
name old speed new speed delta
CodeDecoder-8 183MB/s ± 2% 185MB/s ± 1% +1.02% (p=0.003 n=20+10)
Updates #28923.
Change-Id: I8c6b13302bcd86a364bc998d72451332c0809cde
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/190659
Run-TryBot: Daniel Martí <mvdan@mvdan.cc>
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