From: Josh Bleecher Snyder <josharian@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2017 03:46:52 +0000 (-1000)
Subject: runtime: special case allocation of arrays of size 1
X-Git-Tag: go1.10beta1~1586
X-Git-Url: http://www.git.cypherpunks.su/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=29e9b89b9ada73fa7775b351c100709c330c0a46;p=gostls13.git

runtime: special case allocation of arrays of size 1

This avoids division and multiplication.
Instrumentation suggests that this is a very common case.

Change-Id: I2d5d5012d4f4df4c4af1f9f85ca9c323c9889c0e
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/54657
Run-TryBot: Josh Bleecher Snyder <josharian@gmail.com>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Keith Randall <khr@golang.org>
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diff --git a/src/runtime/malloc.go b/src/runtime/malloc.go
index 0ebd2c0ab2..274ab537fc 100644
--- a/src/runtime/malloc.go
+++ b/src/runtime/malloc.go
@@ -847,6 +847,9 @@ func reflect_unsafe_New(typ *_type) unsafe.Pointer {
 
 // newarray allocates an array of n elements of type typ.
 func newarray(typ *_type, n int) unsafe.Pointer {
+	if n == 1 {
+		return mallocgc(typ.size, typ, true)
+	}
 	if n < 0 || uintptr(n) > maxSliceCap(typ.size) {
 		panic(plainError("runtime: allocation size out of range"))
 	}