strconv: replace small int string table with constant string
This reduces memory use yet still provides the significant
performance gain seen when using a fast path for small integers.
Improvement of this CL comparing to code without fast path:
name old time/op new time/op delta
FormatIntSmall-8 35.6ns ± 1% 4.5ns ± 1% -87.30% (p=0.008 n=5+5)
AppendIntSmall-8 17.4ns ± 1% 9.4ns ± 3% -45.70% (p=0.008 n=5+5)
For comparison, here's the improvement before this CL to code without
fast path (1% better for FormatIntSmall):
name old time/op new time/op delta
FormatIntSmall-8 35.6ns ± 1% 4.0ns ± 3% -88.64% (p=0.008 n=5+5)
AppendIntSmall-8 17.4ns ± 1% 8.2ns ± 1% -52.80% (p=0.008 n=5+5)
Thus, the code in this CL performs slower for small integers using fast
path then the prior version, but this is relative to an already very fast
version:
name old time/op new time/op delta
FormatIntSmall-8 4.05ns ± 3% 4.52ns ± 1% +11.81% (p=0.008 n=5+5)
AppendIntSmall-8 8.21ns ± 1% 9.45ns ± 3% +15.05% (p=0.008 n=5+5)
Measured on 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 running macOS Sierra 10.12.3.
Overall, it's still ~88% faster than without fast path for small integers,
so probably worth it as it removes 100 global string slices in favor of
a single string.
Credits: This is based on the original (but cleaned up) version of the
code by Aliaksandr Valialkin (https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/37963/).
Change-Id: Icda78679c8c14666d46257894e9fa3d7f35e58b8
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/38319 Reviewed-by: Martin Möhrmann <moehrmann@google.com>