Ranging over string is much slower than using DecodeRuneInString.
See golang.org/issue/13162.

Replacing ranging over a string with the implementation of the Bytes
counterpart results in the following performance improvements:

RuneCountInStringTenASCIIChars-8     43.0ns ± 1%  16.4ns ± 2%  -61.80%  (p=0.000 n=7+8)
RuneCountInStringTenJapaneseChars-8   161ns ± 2%   154ns ± 2%   -4.58%  (p=0.000 n=8+8)
ValidStringTenASCIIChars-8           52.2ns ± 1%  13.2ns ± 1%  -74.62%  (p=0.001 n=7+7)
ValidStringTenJapaneseChars-8         173ns ± 2%   153ns ± 2%  -11.78%  (p=0.000 n=7+8)

Update golang/go#13162

Change-Id: Ifc40a6a94bb3317f1f2d929d310bd2694645e9f6
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/16695Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>