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Keith Randall authored
This change is part of the plan to get rid of all vararg C calls which are a pain for getting exact stack scanning. We allocate a chunk of zero memory to return a pointer to when a map access doesn't find the key. This is simpler than returning nil and fixing things up in the caller. Linker magic allocates a single zero memory area that is shared by all (non-reflect-generated) map types. Passing things by reference gets rid of some copies, so it speeds up code with big keys/values. benchmark old ns/op new ns/op delta BenchmarkBigKeyMap 34 31 -8.48% BenchmarkBigValMap 37 30 -18.62% BenchmarkSmallKeyMap 26 23 -11.28% R=golang-dev, dvyukov, khr, rsc CC=golang-dev https://golang.org/cl/14794043
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