log/slog: optimize slog Level.String() to avoid fmt.Sprintf

No more overhead of fmt.Sprintf, especially beneficial for
high-frequency logging.

goos: linux
goarch: amd64
pkg: log/slog
cpu: Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6133 CPU @ 2.50GHz
              │ /tmp/old.txt │            /tmp/new.txt             │
              │    sec/op    │   sec/op     vs base                │
LevelString-4   1006.5n ± 2%   334.2n ± 1%  -66.80% (p=0.000 n=10)

              │ /tmp/old.txt │            /tmp/new.txt            │
              │     B/op     │    B/op     vs base                │
LevelString-4     56.00 ± 0%   48.00 ± 0%  -14.29% (p=0.000 n=10)

              │ /tmp/old.txt │          /tmp/new.txt          │
              │  allocs/op   │ allocs/op   vs base            │
LevelString-4     7.000 ± 0%   7.000 ± 0%  ~ (p=1.000 n=10) ¹

Change-Id: I6585d4aaa4da55d72ac70bc66dff45500eccd056
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/704975
LUCI-TryBot-Result: Go LUCI <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Amsterdam <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Sean Liao <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Emmanuel Odeke <[email protected]>
Auto-Submit: Emmanuel Odeke <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Michael Knyszek <[email protected]>

Author: mohanson

src/log/slog/level.go

@@ -61,7 +61,11 @@ func (l Level) String() string {
 		if val == 0 {
 			return base
 		}
-		return fmt.Sprintf("%s%+d", base, val)
+		sval := strconv.Itoa(int(val))
+		if val > 0 {
+			sval = "+" + sval
+		}
+		return base + sval
 	}
 
 	switch {

src/log/slog/level_test.go

@@ -215,3 +215,25 @@ func TestLevelVarString(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("got %q, want %q", got, want)
 	}
 }
+
+func BenchmarkLevelString(b *testing.B) {
+	levels := []Level{
+		0,
+		LevelError,
+		LevelError + 2,
+		LevelError - 2,
+		LevelWarn,
+		LevelWarn - 1,
+		LevelInfo,
+		LevelInfo + 1,
+		LevelInfo - 3,
+		LevelDebug,
+		LevelDebug - 2,
+	}
+	b.ResetTimer()
+	for b.Loop() {
+		for _, level := range levels {
+			_ = level.String()
+		}
+	}
+}