rlp, trie: faster trie node encoding (#24126)

This change speeds up trie hashing and all other activities that require
RLP encoding of trie nodes by approximately 20%. The speedup is achieved by
avoiding reflection overhead during node encoding.

The interface type trie.node now contains a method 'encode' that works with
rlp.EncoderBuffer. Management of EncoderBuffers is left to calling code.
trie.hasher, which is pooled to avoid allocations, now maintains an
EncoderBuffer. This means memory resources related to trie node encoding
are tied to the hasher pool.

Co-authored-by: Felix Lange <fjl@twurst.com>

rlp/encode.go

@@ -56,20 +56,16 @@ type Encoder interface {
 // Please see package-level documentation of encoding rules.
 func Encode(w io.Writer, val interface{}) error {
 	// Optimization: reuse *encBuffer when called by EncodeRLP.
-	if buf, ok := w.(*encBuffer); ok {
+	if buf := encBufferFromWriter(w); buf != nil {
 		return buf.encode(val)
 	}
-	if ebuf, ok := w.(EncoderBuffer); ok {
-		return ebuf.buf.encode(val)
-	}
 
 	buf := getEncBuffer()
 	defer encBufferPool.Put(buf)
-
 	if err := buf.encode(val); err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
-	return buf.toWriter(w)
+	return buf.writeTo(w)
 }
 
 // EncodeToBytes returns the RLP encoding of val.
@@ -81,7 +77,7 @@ func EncodeToBytes(val interface{}) ([]byte, error) {
 	if err := buf.encode(val); err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
-	return buf.toBytes(), nil
+	return buf.makeBytes(), nil
 }
 
 // EncodeToReader returns a reader from which the RLP encoding of val