This is part 1 of a 2 part changelist. Part 2 contains the mechanical
change to parse.go to compare atoms (ints) instead of strings.

The overall effect of the two changes are:
benchmark                      old ns/op    new ns/op    delta
BenchmarkParser                  4462274      4058254   -9.05%
BenchmarkRawLevelTokenizer        913202       912917   -0.03%
BenchmarkLowLevelTokenizer       1268626      1267836   -0.06%
BenchmarkHighLevelTokenizer      1947305      1968944   +1.11%

R=rsc
CC=andybalholm, golang-dev, r
https://golang.org/cl/6305053