On linux/386 compared to tip:

	name                     old time/op  new time/op  delta
	DecodeInterfaceSlice-40  1.23ms ± 1%  1.17ms ± 1%  -4.93%  (p=0.000 n=9+10)

Recovers about half the performance regression from Go 1.6 on 386.

For #16117.

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