Combined appends lead to fewer machine code and faster performance.
Some may even say that it makes code more readable.
Running revAddrTests over reverseaddr gives measurable improvements:
name old time/op new time/op delta
ReverseAddress-8 4.10µs ± 3% 3.94µs ± 1% -3.81% (p=0.000 n=10+9)
Change-Id: I9bda7a20f802bcdffc6e948789765d04c6da04e7
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/117615
Run-TryBot: Iskander Sharipov <iskander.sharipov@intel.com>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Martí <mvdan@mvdan.cc>
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
// Add it, in reverse, to the buffer
for i := len(ip) - 1; i >= 0; i-- {
v := ip[i]
- buf = append(buf, hexDigit[v&0xF])
- buf = append(buf, '.')
- buf = append(buf, hexDigit[v>>4])
- buf = append(buf, '.')
+ buf = append(buf, hexDigit[v&0xF],
+ '.',
+ hexDigit[v>>4],
+ '.')
}
// Append "ip6.arpa." and return (buf already has the final .)
buf = append(buf, "ip6.arpa."...)