The compiler has advanced enough that it is cheaper
to convert to strings than to go through the assembly
trampolines to call runtime.memequal.
Simplify Equal accordingly, and cull dead code from bytealg.
While we're here, simplify Equal's documentation.
Fixes#31587
Change-Id: Ie721d33f9a6cbd86b1d873398b20e7882c2c63e9
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/173323
Run-TryBot: Josh Bleecher Snyder <josharian@gmail.com>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Dave Cheney <dave@cheney.net>
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
Obtaining the actual size of the underlying storage of the buffer can
be very useful in various scenarios. Long running programs which write
and read large amounts of data to buffers might have to recycle
buffers in order to avoid holding onto potentially huge buffers.
For example, a piece of code which buffers a lot of data in a buffer
might need to release the big buffer and start again with a smaller
buffer after it finished processing the huge amount of data.
In cases where pools of bytes.Buffer are used, being able to check the
size of the allocated data can be very useful.
Instead of forking bytes.Buffer or writing new code, we can export the
Cap() method.
Change-Id: I79d4f0a3cff53b9419d82c8122964761e9e38566
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/8342
Reviewed-by: Rob Pike <r@golang.org>
