First obvious speedup

keys/wordcodec.go

@@ -24,14 +24,14 @@ type WordCodec struct {
 	check ECC
 }
 
-var _ Codec = WordCodec{}
+var _ Codec = &WordCodec{}
 
-func NewCodec(words []string) (codec WordCodec, err error) {
+func NewCodec(words []string) (codec *WordCodec, err error) {
 	if len(words) != BankSize {
 		return codec, errors.Errorf("Bank must have %d words, found %d", BankSize, len(words))
 	}
 
-	res := WordCodec{
+	res := &WordCodec{
 		words: words,
 		// TODO: configure this outside???
 		check: NewIEEECRC32(),
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ func NewCodec(words []string) (codec WordCodec, err error) {
 	return res, nil
 }
 
-func LoadCodec(bank string) (codec WordCodec, err error) {
+func LoadCodec(bank string) (codec *WordCodec, err error) {
 	words, err := loadBank(bank)
 	if err != nil {
 		return codec, err
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ func bytelenFromWords(numWords int) (length int, maybeShorter bool) {
 }
 
 // TODO: add checksum
-func (c WordCodec) BytesToWords(raw []byte) (words []string, err error) {
+func (c *WordCodec) BytesToWords(raw []byte) (words []string, err error) {
 	// always add a checksum to the data
 	data := c.check.AddECC(raw)
 	numWords := wordlenFromBytes(len(data))
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ func (c WordCodec) BytesToWords(raw []byte) (words []string, err error) {
 	return words, nil
 }
 
-func (c WordCodec) WordsToBytes(words []string) ([]byte, error) {
+func (c *WordCodec) WordsToBytes(words []string) ([]byte, error) {
 	l := len(words)
 
 	if l == 0 {
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ func (c WordCodec) WordsToBytes(words []string) ([]byte, error) {
 // GetIndex finds the index of the words to create bytes
 // Generates a map the first time it is loaded, to avoid needless
 // computation when list is not used.
-func (c WordCodec) GetIndex(word string) (int, error) {
+func (c *WordCodec) GetIndex(word string) (int, error) {
 	// generate the first time
 	if c.bytes == nil {
 		b := map[string]int{}

keys/wordcodec_test.go

@@ -130,12 +130,12 @@ func TestCheckInvalidLists(t *testing.T) {
 
 }
 
-func getRandWord(c WordCodec) string {
+func getRandWord(c *WordCodec) string {
 	idx := cmn.RandInt() % BankSize
 	return c.words[idx]
 }
 
-func getDiffWord(c WordCodec, not string) string {
+func getDiffWord(c *WordCodec, not string) string {
 	w := getRandWord(c)
 	if w == not {
 		w = getRandWord(c)
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ func TestCheckTypoDetection(t *testing.T) {
 	for _, bank := range banks {
 		codec, err := LoadCodec(bank)
 		require.Nil(err, "%s: %+v", bank, err)
-		for i := 0; i < 10; i++ {
+		for i := 0; i < 1000; i++ {
 			numBytes := cmn.RandInt()%60 + 1
 			data := cmn.RandBytes(numBytes)
 
@@ -177,5 +177,34 @@ func TestCheckTypoDetection(t *testing.T) {
 			assert.NotNil(err, "%s: %s", bank, words)
 		}
 	}
+}
+
+func warmupCodec(bank string) *WordCodec {
+	codec, err := LoadCodec(bank)
+	if err != nil {
+		panic(err)
+	}
+	_, err = codec.GetIndex(codec.words[123])
+	if err != nil {
+		panic(err)
+	}
+	return codec
+}
 
+func BenchmarkWordGeneration(b *testing.B) {
+	// banks := []string{"english", "spanish", "japanese", "chinese_simplified"}
+	bank := "english"
+
+	codec := warmupCodec(bank)
+	b.ResetTimer()
+
+	numBytes := 32
+	data := cmn.RandBytes(numBytes)
+
+	for i := 1; i <= b.N; i++ {
+		_, err := codec.BytesToWords(data)
+		if err != nil {
+			panic(err)
+		}
+	}
 }