Not a big win, but cheap.

name        old alloc/op      new alloc/op      delta
Template         34.4MB ± 0%       34.4MB ± 0%  -0.20%  (p=0.000 n=15+15)
Unicode          29.2MB ± 0%       29.3MB ± 0%  +0.17%  (p=0.000 n=15+15)
GoTypes           113MB ± 0%        113MB ± 0%  -0.22%  (p=0.000 n=15+15)
Compiler          509MB ± 0%        508MB ± 0%  -0.11%  (p=0.000 n=15+14)
SSA              1.46GB ± 0%       1.46GB ± 0%  -0.08%  (p=0.000 n=14+15)
Flate            23.8MB ± 0%       23.7MB ± 0%  -0.22%  (p=0.000 n=15+15)
GoParser         27.9MB ± 0%       27.8MB ± 0%  -0.21%  (p=0.000 n=14+15)
Reflect          77.2MB ± 0%       77.0MB ± 0%  -0.27%  (p=0.000 n=14+15)
Tar              34.0MB ± 0%       33.9MB ± 0%  -0.21%  (p=0.000 n=13+15)
XML              42.6MB ± 0%       42.5MB ± 0%  -0.15%  (p=0.000 n=15+15)
[Geo mean]       75.8MB            75.7MB       -0.15%

name        old allocs/op     new allocs/op     delta
Template           322k ± 0%         320k ± 0%  -0.60%  (p=0.000 n=15+15)
Unicode            337k ± 0%         336k ± 0%  -0.23%  (p=0.000 n=12+15)
GoTypes           1.13M ± 0%        1.12M ± 0%  -0.58%  (p=0.000 n=15+14)
Compiler          4.67M ± 0%        4.65M ± 0%  -0.38%  (p=0.000 n=14+15)
SSA               11.7M ± 0%        11.6M ± 0%  -0.25%  (p=0.000 n=15+15)
Flate              216k ± 0%         214k ± 0%  -0.67%  (p=0.000 n=15+15)
GoParser           271k ± 0%         270k ± 0%  -0.57%  (p=0.000 n=15+15)
Reflect            927k ± 0%         920k ± 0%  -0.72%  (p=0.000 n=13+14)
Tar                318k ± 0%         316k ± 0%  -0.57%  (p=0.000 n=15+15)
XML                376k ± 0%         375k ± 0%  -0.46%  (p=0.000 n=14+14)
[Geo mean]         731k              727k       -0.50%

Change-Id: I1417c5881e866fb3efe62a3d0fbe1134275da31a
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/109755
Run-TryBot: Josh Bleecher Snyder <josharian@gmail.com>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>