Commit graph

1 commit

Author SHA1 Message Date
Bryan Boreham 6136ae67e0 labels: shrink by making internals a single string
This commit adds an alternate implementation for `labels.Labels`, behind
a build tag `stringlabels`.

Instead of storing label names and values as individual strings, they
are all concatenated into one string in this format:

    [len][name0][len][value0][len][name1][len][value1]...

The lengths are varint encoded so usually a single byte.

The previous `[]string` had 24 bytes of overhead for the slice and 16
for each label name and value; this one has 16 bytes overhead plus 1
for each name and value.

In `ScratchBuilder.Overwrite` and `Labels.Hash` we use an unsafe
conversion from string to byte slice. `Overwrite` is explicitly unsafe,
but for `Hash` this is a pure performance hack.

Signed-off-by: Bryan Boreham <bjboreham@gmail.com>
2023-02-22 15:34:23 +00:00