encoding/gob: speed up encoding of arrays and slices
We borrow a trick from the fmt package and avoid reflection
to walk the elements when possible. We could push further with
unsafe (and we may) but this is a good start.
Decode can benefit similarly; it will be done separately.
Use go generate (engen.go) to produce the helper functions
(enc_helpers.go).
benchmark old ns/op new ns/op delta
BenchmarkEndToEndPipe 6593 6482 -1.68%
BenchmarkEndToEndByteBuffer 3662 3684 +0.60%
BenchmarkEndToEndSliceByteBuffer 350306 351693 +0.40%
BenchmarkComplex128Slice 96347 80045 -16.92%
BenchmarkInt32Slice 42484 26008 -38.78%
BenchmarkFloat64Slice 51143 36265 -29.09%
BenchmarkStringSlice 53402 35077 -34.32%
LGTM=rsc
R=rsc
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/
156310043