From: Matt Joiner <anacrolix@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 11:25:15 +0000 (+1000)
Subject: bencode: Avoid Value.Interface call testing for big.Int
X-Git-Tag: v1.0.0~72
X-Git-Url: http://www.git.stargrave.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b00711bb68a2761b10fd502955aa52a06f32ea9c;p=btrtrc.git

bencode: Avoid Value.Interface call testing for big.Int

Was resulting in significant allocation.
---

diff --git a/bencode/encode.go b/bencode/encode.go
index e364a5d3..d6b6334f 100644
--- a/bencode/encode.go
+++ b/bencode/encode.go
@@ -105,16 +105,18 @@ func (e *Encoder) reflectMarshaler(v reflect.Value) bool {
 	return false
 }
 
+var bigIntType = reflect.TypeOf(big.Int{})
+
 func (e *Encoder) reflectValue(v reflect.Value) {
 
 	if e.reflectMarshaler(v) {
 		return
 	}
 
-	switch t := v.Interface().(type) {
-	case big.Int:
+	if v.Type() == bigIntType {
 		e.writeString("i")
-		e.writeString(t.String())
+		bi := v.Interface().(big.Int)
+		e.writeString(bi.String())
 		e.writeString("e")
 		return
 	}