From bb64a3dad420d73b7f108645b7208da5685c2596 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Bezanson <jeff.bezanson@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2018 11:03:43 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] fix #28481, faster reading of primitive types from IOStream
 and IOBuffer (#29186)

(cherry picked from commit c0afddf640bc487d8c627d8a078bc276c86fda5a)
---
 base/iobuffer.jl | 15 +++++++++++++++
 base/iostream.jl |  4 ++++
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/base/iobuffer.jl b/base/iobuffer.jl
index b3efe5076c1ac7..dec5735d2ed3ba 100644
--- a/base/iobuffer.jl
+++ b/base/iobuffer.jl
@@ -167,6 +167,21 @@ function unsafe_read(from::GenericIOBuffer, p::Ptr{UInt8}, nb::UInt)
     nothing
 end
 
+function read(from::GenericIOBuffer, T::Union{Type{Int16},Type{UInt16},Type{Int32},Type{UInt32},Type{Int64},Type{UInt64},Type{Int128},Type{UInt128},Type{Float16},Type{Float32},Type{Float64}})
+    from.readable || throw(ArgumentError("read failed, IOBuffer is not readable"))
+    avail = bytesavailable(from)
+    nb = sizeof(T)
+    if nb > avail
+        throw(EOFError())
+    end
+    GC.@preserve from begin
+        ptr::Ptr{T} = pointer(from.data, from.ptr)
+        x = unsafe_load(ptr)
+    end
+    from.ptr += nb
+    return x
+end
+
 function read_sub(from::GenericIOBuffer, a::AbstractArray{T}, offs, nel) where T
     @assert !has_offset_axes(a)
     from.readable || throw(ArgumentError("read failed, IOBuffer is not readable"))
diff --git a/base/iostream.jl b/base/iostream.jl
index 8454a1e330175a..0f9ef99b146e11 100644
--- a/base/iostream.jl
+++ b/base/iostream.jl
@@ -401,6 +401,10 @@ if ENDIAN_BOM == 0x04030201
 function read(s::IOStream, T::Union{Type{Int16},Type{UInt16},Type{Int32},Type{UInt32},Type{Int64},Type{UInt64}})
     return ccall(:jl_ios_get_nbyte_int, UInt64, (Ptr{Cvoid}, Csize_t), s.ios, sizeof(T)) % T
 end
+
+read(s::IOStream, ::Type{Float16}) = reinterpret(Float16, read(s, Int16))
+read(s::IOStream, ::Type{Float32}) = reinterpret(Float32, read(s, Int32))
+read(s::IOStream, ::Type{Float64}) = reinterpret(Float64, read(s, Int64))
 end
 
 function unsafe_read(s::IOStream, p::Ptr{UInt8}, nb::UInt)