// +build !appengine // This file encapsulates usage of unsafe. // xxhash_safe.go contains the safe implementations. package xxhash import ( "reflect" "unsafe" ) // Notes: // // See https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-nuts/dcjzJy-bSpw/tcZYBzQqAQAJ // for some discussion about these unsafe conversions. // // In the future it's possible that compiler optimizations will make these // unsafe operations unnecessary: https://golang.org/issue/2205. // // Both of these wrapper functions still incur function call overhead since they // will not be inlined. We could write Go/asm copies of Sum64 and Digest.Write // for strings to squeeze out a bit more speed. Mid-stack inlining should // eventually fix this. // Sum64String computes the 64-bit xxHash digest of s. // It may be faster than Sum64([]byte(s)) by avoiding a copy. func Sum64String(s string) uint64 { var b []byte bh := (*reflect.SliceHeader)(unsafe.Pointer(&b)) bh.Data = (*reflect.StringHeader)(unsafe.Pointer(&s)).Data bh.Len = len(s) bh.Cap = len(s) return Sum64(b) } // WriteString adds more data to d. It always returns len(s), nil. // It may be faster than Write([]byte(s)) by avoiding a copy. func (d *Digest) WriteString(s string) (n int, err error) { var b []byte bh := (*reflect.SliceHeader)(unsafe.Pointer(&b)) bh.Data = (*reflect.StringHeader)(unsafe.Pointer(&s)).Data bh.Len = len(s) bh.Cap = len(s) return d.Write(b) }