Key.PtrType is now an extern struct so that hashing it can be done by
reinterpreting bytes directly. It also uses the same representation for
type_pointer Tag encoding and the Key. Accessing pointer attributes now
requires packed struct access, however, many operations are now a copy
of a u32 rather than several independent fields.
This function moves the top two most used Key variants - pointer types
and pointer values - to use a single-shot hash function that branches
for small keys instead of calling memcpy.
As a result, perf against merge-base went from 1.17x ± 0.04 slower to
1.12x ± 0.04 slower. After the pointer value hashing was changed, total
CPU instructions spent in memcpy went from 4.40% to 4.08%, and after
additionally improving pointer type hashing, it further decreased to
3.72%.
82f6f164a1Andrew Kelley committed on 6/11/2023, 3:47:57 AMparentc7d65fa