There is no need to use SHA256 everywhere, especially on small inputs where we
don't care about its cryptographic properties. We're using FNV as it's the
faster available hash in go's standard library, and we're picking its "a"
version as it's slightly better avalanche characteristics, which are
relevant for small inputs.
This commit has the side-effect of invalidating all favicons saved in the
database, which is desirable to benefit from the resize process implemented in
777d0dd2, as it didn't apply retro-actively.
We're also making use of hex.EncodeToString instead of fmt.Sprintf, as it's
marginally faster.
Note that we can't change the usage of sha256 for feed.Hash as it's used to
deduplicate entries in the database.
- Move the population of the feed's entries into a new function, to make
`BuildFeed` easier to understand/separate concerns/implementation details
- Use `sort+compact` instead of `compact+sort` to remove duplicates
- Change `if !a { a = } if !a {a = }` constructs into `if !a { a = ; if !a {a = }}`.
This reduce the number of comparisons, but also improves a tad the
control-flow readability.
There is no need to detect the format and then the version when both can be
done at the same time.
Add a benchmark as well, on large and small atom and rss files.
Go 1.22 introduced a new [for-range](https://go.dev/ref/spec#For_range)
construct that looks a tad better than the usual `for i := 0; i < N; i++`
construct. I also tool the liberty of replacing some
`for i := 0; i < len(myitemsarray); i++ { … myitemsarray[i] …}`
with `for item := range myitemsarray` when `myitemsarray` contains only pointers.
