Reduces 6g big.go memory usage from 251 MB to 242 MB.
Reduces 6g slow.go memory usage from 529 MB to 453 MB.

Mostly a memory savings; 6g slow.go is only about 5% faster.

The test programs are at
https://rsc.googlecode.com/hg/testdata/big.go (36k lines, 276kB)
https://rsc.googlecode.com/hg/testdata/slow.go (7k lines, 352kB)

R=golang-codereviews, bradfitz, iant
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/42280045