copyZeroAlloc: Try WriteTo and ReadFrom before acquiring a buffer (#1673

)

These are the same statements at the beginning of io.CopyBuffer, but
by doing them ourselves first we trade off a little cpu for not holding
the 4kb buffer during the write.

http.go

@@ -2120,6 +2120,12 @@ func writeBodyFixedSize(w *bufio.Writer, r io.Reader, size int64) error {
 }
 
 func copyZeroAlloc(w io.Writer, r io.Reader) (int64, error) {
+ if wt, ok := r.(io.WriterTo); ok {
+ return wt.WriteTo(w)
+ }
+ if rt, ok := w.(io.ReaderFrom); ok {
+ return rt.ReadFrom(r)
+ }
  vbuf := copyBufPool.Get()
  buf := vbuf.([]byte)
  n, err := io.CopyBuffer(w, r, buf)