Use of reflect.Value.SetXXX panics if the provided argument was
obtained from an unexported struct field.
Instead, pass an unsafe.Pointer around and convert to a
reflect.Value when necessary (i.e., for maps and interfaces).
Converting from unsafe.Pointer to reflect.Value guarantees that
none of the read-only bits will be populated.
When running in race mode, we attach type information to the pointer
so that we can type check every pointer operation.
This also type-checks that direct memory hashing is within
the valid range of a struct value.
We add test cases that previously caused deephash to panic,
but now pass.
Performance:
name old time/op new time/op delta
Hash 14.1µs ± 1% 14.1µs ± 1% ~ (p=0.590 n=10+9)
HashPacketFilter 2.53µs ± 2% 2.44µs ± 1% -3.79% (p=0.000 n=9+10)
TailcfgNode 1.45µs ± 1% 1.43µs ± 0% -1.36% (p=0.000 n=9+9)
HashArray 318ns ± 2% 318ns ± 2% ~ (p=0.541 n=10+10)
HashMapAcyclic 32.9µs ± 1% 31.6µs ± 1% -4.16% (p=0.000 n=10+9)
There is a slight performance gain due to the use of unsafe.Pointer
over reflect.Value methods. Also, passing an unsafe.Pointer (1 word)
on the stack is cheaper than passing a reflect.Value (3 words).
Performance gains are diminishing since SHA-256 hashing now dominates the runtime.
Signed-off-by: Joe Tsai <joetsai@digital-static.net>
Josh Soref
Joe Tsai