And refactor some code a bit, don't use bytes.Clone where type-specific
helpers may be used instead.
Close#2907.
Signed-off-by: Anna Shaleva <shaleva.ann@nspcc.ru>
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.
It is used a lot in clients (including our benchmark).
`Uint160` is already optimized.
```
name old time/op new time/op delta
Uint256DecodeStringLE-8 150ns ±15% 112ns ± 3% -25.23% (p=0.000 n=10+10)
name old alloc/op new alloc/op delta
Uint256DecodeStringLE-8 96.0B ± 0% 64.0B ± 0% -33.33% (p=0.000 n=10+10)
name old allocs/op new allocs/op delta
Uint256DecodeStringLE-8 2.00 ± 0% 1.00 ± 0% -50.00% (p=0.000 n=10+10)
```
Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Stratonikov <evgeniy@nspcc.ru>
We have a lot of native contract types that are converted to stack items
before serialization, then deserialized as stack items and converted back to
regular structures. stackitem.Convertible allows to remove a lot of repetitive
io.Serializable code.
This also introduces to/from converter in testserdes which unfortunately
required to change util tests to avoid circular references.
Strange as it is but I wasn't able to find any good bit field
implementation. Most of them are limited to 64 bits, some allow for wider
values (like https://github.com/emef/bitfield) but even they're not that
efficient (using bytes instead of wider types). This this minimalistic thing.
Frequently one needs to check if struct serializes/deserializes
properly. This commit implements helpers for such cases including:
1. JSON
2. io.Serializable interface
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.
Before this patch on block import we could easily be spending more than 6
seconds out of 30 in Uint256 encoding for UnspentBalance, now it's completely
off the radar.
