runtime: short-circuit bytes.Compare if src and dst are the same slice

Should only matter on ppc64 and ppc64le.

Fixes #11336

Change-Id: Id4b0ac28b573648e1aa98e87bf010f00d006b146
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/13901
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
Run-TryBot: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Dave Cheney <dave@cheney.net>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/runtime/noasm.go b/src/runtime/noasm.go
index 9a6dbeec3d..218e121bf7 100644
--- a/src/runtime/noasm.go
+++ b/src/runtime/noasm.go
@@ -39,6 +39,9 @@ func bytes_Compare(s1, s2 []byte) int {
 	if len(s2) < l {
 		l = len(s2)
 	}
+	if l == 0 || &s1[0] == &s2[0] {
+		goto samebytes
+	}
 	for i := 0; i < l; i++ {
 		c1, c2 := s1[i], s2[i]
 		if c1 < c2 {
@@ -48,6 +51,7 @@ func bytes_Compare(s1, s2 []byte) int {
 			return +1
 		}
 	}
+samebytes:
 	if len(s1) < len(s2) {
 		return -1
 	}