Inline simple Cursor write calls #33921
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Implementing the Write trait for Cursors over slices is so light-weight that under some circumstances multiple writes can be fused into a single instruction. In general I think inlining these functions is a good idea because most of the code can be constant-folded and copy-propagated away. Closes issue rust-lang#33916.
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Inline simple Cursor write calls Implementing the Write trait for Cursors over slices is so light-weight that under some circumstances multiple writes can be fused into a single instruction. In general I think inlining these functions is a good idea because most of the code can be constant-folded and copy-propagated away. Closes issue rust-lang#33916. r? @alexcrichton
(Partially) brings back rust-lang#33921
…lice, r=sfackler Inline some Cursor calls for slices (Partially) brings back rust-lang#33921 I've noticed in some serialization code I was writing that writes to slices produce much, much, worse code than you'd expect even with optimizations turned on. For example, you'd expect something like this to be zero cost: ``` use std::io::{self, Cursor, Write}; pub fn serialize((a, b): (u64, u64)) -> [u8;8+8] { let mut r = [0u8;16]; { let mut w = Cursor::new(&mut r[..]); w.write(&a.to_le_bytes()).unwrap(); w.write(&b.to_le_bytes()).unwrap(); } r } ``` ...but it compiles down to [dozens of instructions](https://rust.godbolt.org/z/bdwDzb) because the `slice_write()` calls aren't inlined, which in turn means `unwrap()` can't be optimized away, and so on. To be clear, this pull-req isn't sufficient by itself: if we want to go down that path we also need to add `#[inline]`'s to the default implementations for functions like `write_all()` in the `Write` trait and so on, or implement them separately in the `Cursor` impls. But I figured I'd start a conversation about what tradeoffs we're expecting here.
Implementing the Write trait for Cursors over slices is so light-weight that under some circumstances multiple writes can be fused into a single instruction. In general I think inlining these functions is a good idea because most of the code can be constant-folded and copy-propagated away.
Closes issue #33916.
r? @alexcrichton