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    cmd/gc: zero pointers on entry to function · 7910cd68
    Russ Cox authored
    On entry to a function, zero the results and zero the pointer
    section of the local variables.
    
    This is an intermediate step on the way to precise collection
    of Go frames.
    
    This can incur a significant (up to 30%) slowdown, but it also ensures
    that the garbage collector never looks at a word in a Go frame
    and sees a stale pointer value that could cause a space leak.
    (C frames and assembly frames are still possibly problematic.)
    
    This CL is required to start making collection of interface values
    as precise as collection of pointer values are today.
    Since we have to dereference the interface type to understand
    whether the value is a pointer, it is critical that the type field be
    initialized.
    
    A future CL by Carl will make the garbage collection pointer
    bitmaps context-sensitive. At that point it will be possible to
    remove most of the zeroing. The only values that will still need
    zeroing are values whose addresses escape the block scoping
    of the function but do not escape to the heap.
    
    benchmark                         old ns/op    new ns/op    delta
    BenchmarkBinaryTree17            4420289180   4331060459   -2.02%
    BenchmarkFannkuch11              3442469663   3277706251   -4.79%
    BenchmarkFmtFprintfEmpty                100          142  +42.00%
    BenchmarkFmtFprintfString               262          310  +18.32%
    BenchmarkFmtFprintfInt                  213          281  +31.92%
    BenchmarkFmtFprintfIntInt               355          431  +21.41%
    BenchmarkFmtFprintfPrefixedInt          321          383  +19.31%
    BenchmarkFmtFprintfFloat                444          533  +20.05%
    BenchmarkFmtManyArgs                   1380         1559  +12.97%
    BenchmarkGobDecode                 10240054     11794915  +15.18%
    BenchmarkGobEncode                 17350274     19970478  +15.10%
    BenchmarkGzip                     455179460    460699139   +1.21%
    BenchmarkGunzip                   114271814    119291574   +4.39%
    BenchmarkHTTPClientServer             89051        89894   +0.95%
    BenchmarkJSONEncode                40486799     52691558  +30.15%
    BenchmarkJSONDecode                94193361    112428781  +19.36%
    BenchmarkMandelbrot200              4747060      4748043   +0.02%
    BenchmarkGoParse                    6363798      6675098   +4.89%
    BenchmarkRegexpMatchEasy0_32            129          171  +32.56%
    BenchmarkRegexpMatchEasy0_1K            365          395   +8.22%
    BenchmarkRegexpMatchEasy1_32            106          152  +43.40%
    BenchmarkRegexpMatchEasy1_1K            952         1245  +30.78%
    BenchmarkRegexpMatchMedium_32           198          283  +42.93%
    BenchmarkRegexpMatchMedium_1K         79006       101097  +27.96%
    BenchmarkRegexpMatchHard_32            3478         5115  +47.07%
    BenchmarkRegexpMatchHard_1K          110245       163582  +48.38%
    BenchmarkRevcomp                  777384355    793270857   +2.04%
    BenchmarkTemplate                 136713089    157093609  +14.91%
    BenchmarkTimeParse                     1511         1761  +16.55%
    BenchmarkTimeFormat                     535          850  +58.88%
    
    benchmark                          old MB/s     new MB/s  speedup
    BenchmarkGobDecode                    74.95        65.07    0.87x
    BenchmarkGobEncode                    44.24        38.43    0.87x
    BenchmarkGzip                         42.63        42.12    0.99x
    BenchmarkGunzip                      169.81       162.67    0.96x
    BenchmarkJSONEncode                   47.93        36.83    0.77x
    BenchmarkJSONDecode                   20.60        17.26    0.84x
    BenchmarkGoParse                       9.10         8.68    0.95x
    BenchmarkRegexpMatchEasy0_32         247.24       186.31    0.75x
    BenchmarkRegexpMatchEasy0_1K        2799.20      2591.93    0.93x
    BenchmarkRegexpMatchEasy1_32         299.31       210.44    0.70x
    BenchmarkRegexpMatchEasy1_1K        1074.71       822.45    0.77x
    BenchmarkRegexpMatchMedium_32          5.04         3.53    0.70x
    BenchmarkRegexpMatchMedium_1K         12.96        10.13    0.78x
    BenchmarkRegexpMatchHard_32            9.20         6.26    0.68x
    BenchmarkRegexpMatchHard_1K            9.29         6.26    0.67x
    BenchmarkRevcomp                     326.95       320.40    0.98x
    BenchmarkTemplate                     14.19        12.35    0.87x
    
    R=cshapiro
    CC=golang-dev
    https://golang.org/cl/12616045
    7910cd68
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