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Anders Eknert fc55be83e6 perf: json.patch + interning improvements (#8289)
The `json.patch` built-in is quite versatile, and compared to
patching via e.g. `object.union` et. al. often communicates
intent better, IMO. But while it uses some fairly advanced
logic for complex patch operations, it doesn't perform all that
great on simple ones. This is a first and pretty basic attempt
to improve that somewhat by picking the most low-hangig performance
fruits, like avoiding repeated allocations of temporary term pointers.

The main allocation source is the creation of EditTree's, and this
remains a problem. I have created a sync pool but only managed to
get the outermost edit tree to recycle, as I found it really hard
to track where it's safe to release those created in the deeply
nested calls. Additionally, I managed to trigger stack overflows
trying to recycle child trees, so there seems to be some circular
refs? Or I just did something wrong.

If someone wants to look into this and pick up where
I left, that'd be great!

- Add InternedIntRange for testing, primarily
- Intern keys used in json.patch patches
- Clean up json.X built-in benchmarks
- Reduce allocations in edit tree function
- Avoid using intermediate data structures
  for JSON patches
- Some unrelated interning fixes to reduce noise
  in tests and benchmarks (e.g. do less stuff in
  var inits)

Selected benchmark that I used while working on this:

**Before**
```
BenchmarkJSONPatchAddShallowScalar/object-10-16    147853      8008 ns/op    9667 B/op    206 allocs/op
BenchmarkJSONPatchAddShallowScalar/array-10-16     201704      5889 ns/op    7256 B/op    173 allocs/op
BenchmarkJSONPatchAddShallowScalar/set-10-16       182566      6733 ns/op    8103 B/op    156 allocs/op
```

**After**
```
BenchmarkJSONPatchAddShallowScalar/object-10-16    197414      6066 ns/op    7256 B/op    133 allocs/op
BenchmarkJSONPatchAddShallowScalar/array-10-16     278121      4427 ns/op    5285 B/op    100 allocs/op
BenchmarkJSONPatchAddShallowScalar/set-10-16       233884      4839 ns/op    6243 B/op    113 allocs/op
```

Signed-off-by: Anders Eknert <anders.eknert@apple.com>
2026-02-10 20:57:12 +00:00
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