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Keith Randall ce88e341b9 cmd/compile: allocate backing store for append on the stack
When appending, if the backing store doesn't escape and a
constant-sized backing store is big enough, use a constant-sized
stack-allocated backing store instead of allocating it from the heap.

cmd/go is <0.1% bigger.

As an example of how this helps, if you edit strings/strings.go:FieldsFunc
to replace
    spans := make([]span, 0, 32)
with
    var spans []span

then this CL removes the first 2 allocations that are part of the growth sequence:

                            │    base      │                 exp                  │
                            │  allocs/op   │  allocs/op   vs base                 │
FieldsFunc/ASCII/16-24         3.000 ± ∞ ¹   2.000 ± ∞ ¹  -33.33% (p=0.008 n=5)
FieldsFunc/ASCII/256-24        7.000 ± ∞ ¹   5.000 ± ∞ ¹  -28.57% (p=0.008 n=5)
FieldsFunc/ASCII/4096-24      11.000 ± ∞ ¹   9.000 ± ∞ ¹  -18.18% (p=0.008 n=5)
FieldsFunc/ASCII/65536-24      18.00 ± ∞ ¹   16.00 ± ∞ ¹  -11.11% (p=0.008 n=5)
FieldsFunc/ASCII/1048576-24    30.00 ± ∞ ¹   28.00 ± ∞ ¹   -6.67% (p=0.008 n=5)
FieldsFunc/Mixed/16-24         2.000 ± ∞ ¹   2.000 ± ∞ ¹        ~ (p=1.000 n=5)
FieldsFunc/Mixed/256-24        7.000 ± ∞ ¹   5.000 ± ∞ ¹  -28.57% (p=0.008 n=5)
FieldsFunc/Mixed/4096-24      11.000 ± ∞ ¹   9.000 ± ∞ ¹  -18.18% (p=0.008 n=5)
FieldsFunc/Mixed/65536-24      18.00 ± ∞ ¹   16.00 ± ∞ ¹  -11.11% (p=0.008 n=5)
FieldsFunc/Mixed/1048576-24    30.00 ± ∞ ¹   28.00 ± ∞ ¹   -6.67% (p=0.008 n=5)

(Of course, people have spotted and fixed a bunch of allocation sites
like this, but now we're ~automatically doing it everywhere going forward.)

No significant increases in frame sizes in cmd/go.

Change-Id: I301c4d9676667eacdae0058960321041d173751a
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/664299
Reviewed-by: Keith Randall <khr@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Cherry Mui <cherryyz@google.com>
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