net/http: reduce calls to append in hexEscapeNonASCII to gain a slight performance boost

goos: linux
goarch: amd64
pkg: net/http
cpu: DO-Premium-Intel
                    │     old      │                 new                 │
                    │    sec/op    │   sec/op     vs base                │
HexEscapeNonASCII-4   469.6n ± 20%   371.1n ± 9%  -20.98% (p=0.000 n=10)

                    │    old     │              new               │
                    │    B/op    │    B/op     vs base            │
HexEscapeNonASCII-4   192.0 ± 0%   192.0 ± 0%  ~ (p=1.000 n=10) ¹
¹ all samples are equal

                    │    old     │              new               │
                    │ allocs/op  │ allocs/op   vs base            │
HexEscapeNonASCII-4   2.000 ± 0%   2.000 ± 0%  ~ (p=1.000 n=10) ¹
¹ all samples are equal

Change-Id: Ic8d2b3ddcf2cf724dec3f51a2aba205f2c6e4fe6
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/425786
Reviewed-by: Than McIntosh <thanm@google.com>
Auto-Submit: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Run-TryBot: Andy Pan <panjf2000@gmail.com>
TryBot-Result: Gopher Robot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Dmitri Shuralyov <dmitshur@google.com>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/net/http/http.go b/src/net/http/http.go
index 101799f574..9b81654fcc 100644
--- a/src/net/http/http.go
+++ b/src/net/http/http.go
@@ -86,14 +86,20 @@ func hexEscapeNonASCII(s string) string {
 		return s
 	}
 	b := make([]byte, 0, newLen)
+	var pos int
 	for i := 0; i < len(s); i++ {
 		if s[i] >= utf8.RuneSelf {
+			if pos < i {
+				b = append(b, s[pos:i]...)
+			}
 			b = append(b, '%')
 			b = strconv.AppendInt(b, int64(s[i]), 16)
-		} else {
-			b = append(b, s[i])
+			pos = i + 1
 		}
 	}
+	if pos < len(s) {
+		b = append(b, s[pos:]...)
+	}
 	return string(b)
 }