- renames `Default` to `Show`
- introduces some hidden `std::fmt::secret_...` functions, designed to work-around the lack of UFCS (with UFCS they can be replaced by referencing the trait methods directly) because I'm going to convert the traits to have methods rather than static functions, since `#[deriving]` works much better with true methods.
I'm blocked on a snapshot after this. (I could probably do a large number of `#[cfg]`s, but I can work on other things in the meantime.)
This removes @[] from the parser as well as much of the handling of it (and `@str`) from the compiler as I can find.
I've just rebased @pcwalton's (already reviewed) `@str` removal (and fixed the problems in a separate commit); the only new work is the trailing commits with my authorship.
Closes#11967
LLVM fails to properly optimize the shifts used to convert the source
value to the right endianess. The resulting assembly copies the value
to the stack one byte at a time even when there's no conversion required
(e.g. u64_to_le_bytes on a little endian machine).
Instead of doing the conversion ourselves using shifts, we can use the
existing intrinsics to perform the endianess conversion and then
transmute the value to get a fixed vector of its bytes.
Before:
````
test be_i8 ... bench: 21442 ns/iter (+/- 70)
test be_i16 ... bench: 21447 ns/iter (+/- 45)
test be_i32 ... bench: 23832 ns/iter (+/- 63)
test be_i64 ... bench: 26887 ns/iter (+/- 267)
test le_i8 ... bench: 21442 ns/iter (+/- 56)
test le_i16 ... bench: 21448 ns/iter (+/- 36)
test le_i32 ... bench: 23825 ns/iter (+/- 153)
test le_i64 ... bench: 26271 ns/iter (+/- 138)
````
After:
````
test be_i8 ... bench: 21438 ns/iter (+/- 10)
test be_i16 ... bench: 21441 ns/iter (+/- 15)
test be_i32 ... bench: 19057 ns/iter (+/- 6)
test be_i64 ... bench: 21439 ns/iter (+/- 34)
test le_i8 ... bench: 21438 ns/iter (+/- 19)
test le_i16 ... bench: 21439 ns/iter (+/- 8)
test le_i32 ... bench: 21439 ns/iter (+/- 19)
test le_i64 ... bench: 21438 ns/iter (+/- 22)
````
