make sure byte swapping is optimal for git

We rely on ntohl() and htonl() to perform byte swapping in many places.
However, some platforms have libraries providing really poor
implementations of those which might cause significant performance
issues, especially with the block-sha1 code.
Signed-off-by: NNicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

block-sha1/sha1.c

@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
  * and to avoid unnecessary copies into the context array.
  */
 
-#include <string.h>
-#include <arpa/inet.h>
+/* this is only to get definitions for memcpy(), ntohl() and htonl() */
+#include "../git-compat-util.h"
 
 #include "sha1.h"
 

compat/bswap.h

+/*
+ * Let's make sure we always have a sane definition for ntohl()/htonl().
+ * Some libraries define those as a function call, just to perform byte
+ * shifting, bringing significant overhead to what should be a simple
+ * operation.
+ */
+
+/*
+ * Default version that the compiler ought to optimize properly with
+ * constant values.
+ */
+static inline unsigned int default_swab32(unsigned int val)
+{
+	return (((val & 0xff000000) >> 24) |
+		((val & 0x00ff0000) >>  8) |
+		((val & 0x0000ff00) <<  8) |
+		((val & 0x000000ff) << 24));
+}
+
+#if defined(__GNUC__) && (defined(__i386__) || defined(__x86_64__))
+
+#define bswap32(x) ({ \
+	unsigned int __res; \
+	if (__builtin_constant_p(x)) { \
+		__res = default_swab32(x); \
+	} else { \
+		__asm__("bswap %0" : "=r" (__res) : "0" (x)); \
+	} \
+	__res; })
+
+#undef ntohl
+#undef htonl
+#define ntohl(x) bswap32(x)
+#define htonl(x) bswap32(x)
+
+#endif

git-compat-util.h

@@ -176,6 +176,8 @@ extern char *gitbasename(char *);
 #endif
 #endif
 
+#include "compat/bswap.h"
+
 /* General helper functions */
 extern void usage(const char *err) NORETURN;
 extern void die(const char *err, ...) NORETURN __attribute__((format (printf, 1, 2)));