The previous benchmark spent much of its time allocating RNGs and
generating too many random numbers. It now spends 90% of its time
hashing and half of the rest writing to files.
name old time/op new time/op delta
PackerManager-8 319ms ± 1% 247ms ± 1% -22.48% (p=0.000 n=20+18)
name old speed new speed delta
PackerManager-8 143MB/s ± 1% 213MB/s ± 1% +48.63% (p=0.000 n=10+18)
name old alloc/op new alloc/op delta
PackerManager-8 635kB ± 0% 92kB ± 0% -85.48% (p=0.000 n=10+19)
name old allocs/op new allocs/op delta
PackerManager-8 1.64k ± 0% 1.43k ± 0% -12.76% (p=0.000 n=10+20)
As mentioned in issue [#1560](https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1560#issuecomment-364689346)
this changes the signature for `backend.Save()`. It now takes a
parameter of interface type `RewindReader`, so that the backend
implementations or our `RetryBackend` middleware can reset the reader to
the beginning and then retry an upload operation.
The `RewindReader` interface also provides a `Length()` method, which is
used in the backend to get the size of the data to be saved. This
removes several ugly hacks we had to do to pull the size back out of the
`io.Reader` passed to `Save()` before. In the `s3` and `rest` backend
this is actively used.
The code now bundles tree blobs and data blobs into different pack
files, so we'll end up with pack files that either only contain data or
trees. This is in preparation to adding a cache (#1040), because
tree-only pack files can easily be cached later on.
