perf: cut per-document overheads of pooled decoders

[pelletier]

Splitting #1088: this PR carries three small per-document costs of the pooled decoder in one reviewable unit.

What

• Decoder.Decode read its input through io.ReadAll's growth sequence. Readers that know their size (bytes.Reader, strings.Reader, bytes.Buffer, anything with Len() int) now get an exactly-sized buffer up front, with a ReadAll fallback for readers that outgrow their announced size.
• Resetting a pooled decoder walked the array-table count map to zero every slot. Slots are now stamped with a generation (acSlot), and a single counter bump invalidates all of them in O(1); stale slots read as zero.
• Every struct table lookup paid an interface-hash sync.Map access for its struct plan. A small MRU memo on the decoder (8 entries) catches the handful of struct types a document actually uses.

Impact

Benchmarked on a dedicated linux/amd64 spot VM (t2d), go1.26.4, interleaved A/B vs the base of this PR, benchstat over 10 samples per side:

• sec/op geomean: -0.18%
• Unmarshal/SimpleDocument/struct: -6.07%
• RealWorldContainerdConfig: -3.58%
• RealWorldHugoFrontMatterBatch: -2.86%
• Unmarshal/HugoFrontMatter: -2.78%
• Unmarshal/SimpleDocument/map: -2.61%
• UnmarshalDataset/code: -2.47%
• RealWorldGolangciStrict: +3.60%
• Unmarshal/ReferenceFile/struct: +9.56%
• allocs/op geomean: -0.09%
• allocs RealWorldGolangciStrict: -2.08%

Full benchstat (sec/op, allocs/op)

sec/op

UnmarshalDataset/config  10.38m ± 1%  10.43m ± 1%  ~ (p=0.218 n=10)
UnmarshalDataset/canada  23.64m ± 1%  23.96m ± 2%  ~ (p=0.123 n=10)
UnmarshalDataset/citm_catalog  15.02m ± 1%  15.14m ± 1%  ~ (p=0.075 n=10)
UnmarshalDataset/twitter  3.582m ± 0%  3.589m ± 1%  ~ (p=0.579 n=10)
UnmarshalDataset/code  34.55m ± 2%  33.70m ± 1%  -2.47% (p=0.000 n=10)
UnmarshalDataset/example  77.22µ ± 1%  77.34µ ± 0%  ~ (p=0.971 n=10)
Unmarshal/SimpleDocument/struct  332.2n ± 1%  312.1n ± 1%  -6.07% (p=0.000 n=10)
Unmarshal/SimpleDocument/map  425.6n ± 1%  414.5n ± 1%  -2.61% (p=0.000 n=10)
Unmarshal/ReferenceFile/struct  39.48µ ± 4%  43.25µ ± 5%  +9.56% (p=0.000 n=10)
Unmarshal/ReferenceFile/map  31.51µ ± 1%  31.33µ ± 2%  ~ (p=0.315 n=10)
Unmarshal/HugoFrontMatter  5.659µ ± 1%  5.501µ ± 2%  -2.78% (p=0.000 n=10)
Marshal/SimpleDocument/struct  398.8n ± 2%  400.4n ± 3%  ~ (p=0.643 n=10)
Marshal/SimpleDocument/map  595.2n ± 0%  597.6n ± 1%  ~ (p=0.101 n=10)
Marshal/ReferenceFile/struct  20.63µ ± 1%  20.82µ ± 2%  ~ (p=0.481 n=10)
Marshal/ReferenceFile/map  40.11µ ± 3%  40.26µ ± 3%  ~ (p=0.579 n=10)
Marshal/HugoFrontMatter  8.009µ ± 2%  7.911µ ± 3%  ~ (p=0.897 n=10)
RealWorldContainerdConfig  40.30µ ± 1%  38.86µ ± 2%  -3.58% (p=0.000 n=10)
RealWorldViperRead  8.297µ ± 1%  8.279µ ± 1%  ~ (p=0.469 n=10)
RealWorldViperWrite  12.37µ ± 4%  12.66µ ± 4%  ~ (p=0.971 n=10)
RealWorldHugoFrontMatterBatch  94.91µ ± 1%  92.19µ ± 1%  -2.86% (p=0.000 n=10)
RealWorldGitleaksRules  64.55µ ± 1%  64.31µ ± 1%  ~ (p=0.143 n=10)
RealWorldPyproject  14.94µ ± 1%  14.79µ ± 1%  ~ (p=0.105 n=10)
RealWorldGolangciStrict  11.84µ ± 0%  12.27µ ± 2%  +3.60% (p=0.000 n=10)
geomean  46.69µ  46.61µ  -0.18%

allocs/op

UnmarshalDataset/config  70.19k ± 0%  70.19k ± 0%  ~ (p=1.000 n=10) ¹
UnmarshalDataset/canada  223.2k ± 0%  223.2k ± 0%  ~ (p=1.000 n=10) ¹
UnmarshalDataset/citm_catalog  49.98k ± 0%  49.98k ± 0%  ~ (p=1.000 n=10) ¹
UnmarshalDataset/twitter  15.78k ± 0%  15.78k ± 0%  ~ (p=1.000 n=10) ¹
UnmarshalDataset/code  129.5k ± 0%  129.5k ± 0%  ~ (p=1.000 n=10) ¹
UnmarshalDataset/example  399.0 ± 0%  399.0 ± 0%  ~ (p=1.000 n=10) ¹
Unmarshal/SimpleDocument/struct  2.000 ± 0%  2.000 ± 0%  ~ (p=1.000 n=10) ¹
Unmarshal/SimpleDocument/map  5.000 ± 0%  5.000 ± 0%  ~ (p=1.000 n=10) ¹
Unmarshal/ReferenceFile/struct  83.00 ± 0%  83.00 ± 0%  ~ (p=1.000 n=10) ¹
Unmarshal/ReferenceFile/map  194.0 ± 0%  194.0 ± 0%  ~ (p=1.000 n=10) ¹
Unmarshal/HugoFrontMatter  54.00 ± 0%  54.00 ± 0%  ~ (p=1.000 n=10) ¹
Marshal/SimpleDocument/struct  4.000 ± 0%  4.000 ± 0%  ~ (p=1.000 n=10) ¹
Marshal/SimpleDocument/map  4.000 ± 0%  4.000 ± 0%  ~ (p=1.000 n=10) ¹
Marshal/ReferenceFile/struct  4.000 ± 0%  4.000 ± 0%  ~ (p=1.000 n=10) ¹
Marshal/ReferenceFile/map  91.00 ± 0%  91.00 ± 0%  ~ (p=1.000 n=10) ¹
Marshal/HugoFrontMatter  20.00 ± 0%  20.00 ± 0%  ~ (p=1.000 n=10) ¹
RealWorldContainerdConfig  144.0 ± 0%  144.0 ± 0%  ~ (p=1.000 n=10) ¹
RealWorldViperRead  65.00 ± 0%  65.00 ± 0%  ~ (p=1.000 n=10) ¹
RealWorldViperWrite  33.00 ± 0%  33.00 ± 0%  ~ (p=1.000 n=10) ¹
RealWorldHugoFrontMatterBatch  820.0 ± 0%  820.0 ± 0%  ~ (p=1.000 n=10) ¹
RealWorldGitleaksRules  259.0 ± 0%  259.0 ± 0%  ~ (p=1.000 n=10) ¹
RealWorldPyproject  142.0 ± 0%  142.0 ± 0%  ~ (p=1.000 n=10) ¹
RealWorldGolangciStrict  48.00 ± 0%  47.00 ± 0%  -2.08% (p=0.000 n=10)
geomean  211.1  210.9  -0.09%
¹ all samples are equal

Notes: RealWorldGolangciStrict decodes into a config with more struct types than the memo holds; the memo uses a transpose-on-hit / rotating-overwrite scheme so that this worst case degrades to a few pointer comparisons (+3.6% here) instead of an array shift per lookup, and it nets out negative once the rest of the series lands (−1.75% in the combined branch). The Unmarshal/ReferenceFile/struct row is alignment noise on this host — the function it exercises is untouched apart from the memo indirection, and the combined branch has it at −4.95%.

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