common/hreflect: Speed up IsTrutfulValue

By caching the calculation of whether a type implements `IsZero`:

```
IsTruthFulVAlue-10    467.95n ± ∞ ¹   79.13n ± ∞ ¹  -83.09% (p=0.029 n=4)
```

Author: bep

common/hreflect/helpers.go

@@ -86,6 +86,18 @@ func IsSlice(v any) bool {
 
 var zeroType = reflect.TypeOf((*types.Zeroer)(nil)).Elem()
 
+var isZeroCache sync.Map
+
+func implementsIsZero(tp reflect.Type) bool {
+	v, ok := isZeroCache.Load(tp)
+	if ok {
+		return v.(bool)
+	}
+	implements := tp.Implements(zeroType)
+	isZeroCache.Store(tp, implements)
+	return implements
+}
+
 // IsTruthfulValue returns whether the given value has a meaningful truth value.
 // This is based on template.IsTrue in Go's stdlib, but also considers
 // IsZero and any interface value will be unwrapped before it's considered
@@ -105,7 +117,7 @@ func IsTruthfulValue(val reflect.Value) (truth bool) {
 		return
 	}
 
-	if val.Type().Implements(zeroType) {
+	if implementsIsZero(val.Type()) {
 		return !val.Interface().(types.Zeroer).IsZero()
 	}
 

common/hreflect/helpers_test.go

@@ -106,14 +106,26 @@ func BenchmarkIsContextType(b *testing.B) {
 	})
 }
 
-func BenchmarkIsTruthFul(b *testing.B) {
-	v := reflect.ValueOf("Hugo")
+func BenchmarkIsTruthFulValue(b *testing.B) {
+	var (
+		stringHugo  = reflect.ValueOf("Hugo")
+		stringEmpty = reflect.ValueOf("")
+		zero        = reflect.ValueOf(time.Time{})
+		timeNow     = reflect.ValueOf(time.Now())
+		boolTrue    = reflect.ValueOf(true)
+		boolFalse   = reflect.ValueOf(false)
+		nilPointer  = reflect.ValueOf((*zeroStruct)(nil))
+	)
 
 	b.ResetTimer()
 	for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
-		if !IsTruthfulValue(v) {
-			b.Fatal("not truthful")
-		}
+		IsTruthfulValue(stringHugo)
+		IsTruthfulValue(stringEmpty)
+		IsTruthfulValue(zero)
+		IsTruthfulValue(timeNow)
+		IsTruthfulValue(boolTrue)
+		IsTruthfulValue(boolFalse)
+		IsTruthfulValue(nilPointer)
 	}
 }