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    cmd/compile: unroll comparisons to short constant strings · c9fd9975
    Josh Bleecher Snyder authored
    Unroll s == "ab" to
    
    len(s) == 2 && s[0] == 'a' && s[1] == 'b'
    
    This generates faster and shorter code
    by avoiding a runtime call.
    Do something similar for !=.
    
    The cutoff length is 6. This was chosen empirically
    by examining binary sizes on arm, arm64, 386, and amd64
    using the SSA backend.
    
    For all architectures examined, 4, 5, and 6 were
    the ideal cutoff, with identical binary sizes.
    
    The distribution of constant string equality sizes
    during 'go build -a std' is:
    
     40.81%   622 len 0
     14.11%   215 len 4
      9.45%   144 len 1
      7.81%   119 len 3
      7.48%   114 len 5
      5.12%    78 len 7
      4.13%    63 len 2
      3.54%    54 len 8
      2.69%    41 len 6
      1.18%    18 len 10
      0.85%    13 len 9
      0.66%    10 len 14
      0.59%     9 len 17
      0.46%     7 len 11
      0.26%     4 len 12
      0.20%     3 len 19
      0.13%     2 len 13
      0.13%     2 len 15
      0.13%     2 len 16
      0.07%     1 len 20
      0.07%     1 len 23
      0.07%     1 len 33
      0.07%     1 len 36
    
    A cutoff of length 6 covers most of the cases.
    
    Benchmarks on amd64 comparing a string to a constant of length 3:
    
    Cmp/1same-8           4.78ns ± 6%  0.94ns ± 9%  -80.26%  (p=0.000 n=20+20)
    Cmp/1diffbytes-8      6.43ns ± 6%  0.96ns ±11%  -85.13%  (p=0.000 n=20+20)
    Cmp/3same-8           4.71ns ± 5%  1.28ns ± 5%  -72.90%  (p=0.000 n=20+20)
    Cmp/3difffirstbyte-8  6.33ns ± 7%  1.27ns ± 7%  -79.90%  (p=0.000 n=20+20)
    Cmp/3difflastbyte-8   6.34ns ± 8%  1.26ns ± 9%  -80.13%  (p=0.000 n=20+20)
    
    The change to the prove test preserves the
    existing intent of the test. When the string was
    short, there was a new "proved in bounds" report
    that referred to individual byte comparisons.
    
    Change-Id: I593ac303b0d11f275672090c5c786ea0c6b8da13
    Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/26758
    Run-TryBot: Josh Bleecher Snyder <josharian@gmail.com>
    TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
    Reviewed-by: 's avatarBrad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
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