Everywhere including examples, external interop APIs, bindings generators
code and in other valuable places. A couple of `interface{}` usages are
intentionally left in the CHANGELOG.md, documentation and tests.
Similar to c69670c85b, allows to eliminate one
allocation and reduce memory footprint a bit (tested on tx decoding):
name old time/op new time/op delta
DecodeFromBytes-8 1.78µs ± 3% 1.79µs ± 2% ~ (p=1.000 n=10+10)
name old alloc/op new alloc/op delta
DecodeFromBytes-8 888B ± 0% 800B ± 0% -9.91% (p=0.000 n=10+10)
name old allocs/op new allocs/op delta
DecodeFromBytes-8 11.0 ± 0% 10.0 ± 0% -9.09% (p=0.000 n=10+10)
go vet is not happy about them:
pkg/io/binaryReader.go:92:21: method ReadByte() byte should have signature ReadByte() (byte, error)
pkg/io/binaryWriter.go:75:21: method WriteByte(u8 byte) should have signature WriteByte(byte) error
This seriously improves the serialization/deserialization performance for
several reasons:
* no time spent in `binary` reflection
* no memory allocations being made on every read/write
* uses fast ReadBytes everywhere it's appropriate
It also makes Fixed8 Serializable just for convenience.
reflect.MethodByName is a rather expensive function especially when
called on hot path. This became obvious during profiling of db restore.
This commit replaces reflection with a cast to an interface.
The logic here is that we'll have all binary encoding/decoding done via our io
package, which simplifies error handling. This functionality doesn't belong to
util, so it's moved.
This also expands BufBinWriter with Reset() method to fit the needs of core
package.
