blob: pass through reader/writer to WriteTo
/ReadFrom
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#3267
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The blob
Reader
andWriter
implementWriterTo
andReaderFrom
, respectively, which is meant to avoid intermediary allocations and copies (passing readers and readers through all the way down). Unfortunately, the current implementation falls short and implements those interfaces by making a local copy ala io.Copy.Instead, reproduce the strategy in newer versions of
io.Copy
: reflect on the reader/writer provided by the user, and if they implement these interface, too, then call into that.Local benchmarks show significant performance improvements:
Most benchmarks use
ReadAll
andWriteAll
, which use slices directly and don't benefit from this change. I modified theBenchmarkRead
to use abytes.Buffer
and a call toio.Copy
to exercise theWriteTo
path. I believe we should change the remaining benchmarks to do the same. I don't thinkReadAll
/WriteAll
represent how most real-world applications interact with the library (piping readers/writer instead, but that assumption may be wrong!)