go - Hashing reflect.Type

Question

I'm trying to find a quick way of performing comparisons between two []reflect.Type. Right now I have the following:

func Equal(left, right []reflect.Type) bool {
    if len(left) != len(right) {
        return false
    }
    for i := 0; i < len(left); i++ {
        if left[i] != right[i] {
            return false
        }
    }
    return true
}

Most of the slices don't change. So if I can find a way to hash them, I'd get a huge perf boost.

Background

I'm trying to (for fun) implement a form of function overloading in Go using the reflect package. The first thing I did is to convert each specialised/overloaded function into a signature type.

type Signature struct {
    Variadic bool
    In, Out  []reflect.Type
}

The idea is that, when the overloaded function gets called, I'll convert the arguments into a slice of reflect.Type and then find a Signature where the In types match.

This works, but for each comparison, it's a linear scan which is pretty slow. If I could hash the slice of []reflect.Type I could stick that in a map and get constant time lookups.

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