Switch deephash to use sha256x.Hash.
We add sha256x.HashString to efficiently hash a string.
It uses unsafe under the hood to convert a string to a []byte.
We also modify sha256x.Hash to export the underlying hash.Hash
for testing purposes so that we can intercept all hash.Hash calls.
Performance:
name old time/op new time/op delta
Hash-24 19.8µs ± 1% 19.2µs ± 1% -3.01% (p=0.000 n=10+10)
HashPacketFilter-24 2.61µs ± 0% 2.53µs ± 1% -3.01% (p=0.000 n=8+10)
HashMapAcyclic-24 31.3µs ± 1% 29.8µs ± 0% -4.80% (p=0.000 n=10+9)
TailcfgNode-24 1.83µs ± 1% 1.82µs ± 2% ~ (p=0.305 n=10+10)
HashArray-24 344ns ± 2% 323ns ± 1% -6.02% (p=0.000 n=9+10)
The performance gains is not as dramatic as sha256x over sha256 due to:
1. most of the hashing already occurring through the direct memory hashing logic, and
2. what does not go through direct memory hashing is slowed down by reflect.
Signed-off-by: Joe Tsai <joetsai@digital-static.net>
The hash.Hash provided by sha256.New is much more efficient
if we always provide it with data a multiple of the block size.
This avoids double-copying of data into the internal block
of sha256.digest.x. Effectively, we are managing a block ourselves
to ensure we only ever call hash.Hash.Write with full blocks.
Performance:
name old time/op new time/op delta
Hash 33.5µs ± 1% 20.6µs ± 1% -38.40% (p=0.000 n=10+9)
The logic has gone through CPU-hours of fuzzing.
Signed-off-by: Joe Tsai <joetsai@digital-static.net>