Trimmed vtables of trailing zeroes.

This is something the format supports, but none of the builders
were doing. Can save 10-20% on FlatBuffer binary size!

Also fixed the Go tests.

Change-Id: I616c56ce9bbcfcaee23aa24f0532fcb60b6a8c75
Tested: on Linux.
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Wouter van Oortmerssen
2017-08-21 13:44:23 -07:00
parent 513958ea72
commit ac1015e3c4
25 changed files with 129 additions and 62 deletions

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@@ -110,6 +110,11 @@ func (b *Builder) WriteVtable() (n UOffsetT) {
objectOffset := b.Offset()
existingVtable := UOffsetT(0)
// Trim vtable of trailing zeroes.
i := len(b.vtable) - 1;
for ; i >= 0 && b.vtable[i] == 0; i-- {}
b.vtable = b.vtable[:i + 1];
// Search backwards through existing vtables, because similar vtables
// are likely to have been recently appended. See
// BenchmarkVtableDeduplication for a case in which this heuristic