These benchmarks show the effect of the combination of this change
and Rick's pending CL 6665. Code with interior pointers is helped
much more than code without, but even code without doesn't suffer
too badly.

benchmark                          old ns/op      new ns/op      delta
BenchmarkBinaryTree17              6989407768     6851728175     -1.97%
BenchmarkFannkuch11                4416250775     4405762558     -0.24%
BenchmarkFmtFprintfEmpty           134            130            -2.99%
BenchmarkFmtFprintfString          491            402            -18.13%
BenchmarkFmtFprintfInt             430            420            -2.33%
BenchmarkFmtFprintfIntInt          748            663            -11.36%
BenchmarkFmtFprintfPrefixedInt     602            534            -11.30%
BenchmarkFmtFprintfFloat           728            699            -3.98%
BenchmarkFmtManyArgs               2528           2507           -0.83%
BenchmarkGobDecode                 17448191       17749756       +1.73%
BenchmarkGobEncode                 14579824       14370183       -1.44%
BenchmarkGzip                      656489990      652669348      -0.58%
BenchmarkGunzip                    141254147      141099278      -0.11%
BenchmarkHTTPClientServer          94111          93738          -0.40%
BenchmarkJSONEncode                36305013       36696440       +1.08%
BenchmarkJSONDecode                124652000      128176454      +2.83%
BenchmarkMandelbrot200             6009333        5997093        -0.20%
BenchmarkGoParse                   7651583        7623494        -0.37%
BenchmarkRegexpMatchEasy0_32       213            213            +0.00%
BenchmarkRegexpMatchEasy0_1K       511            494            -3.33%
BenchmarkRegexpMatchEasy1_32       186            187            +0.54%
BenchmarkRegexpMatchEasy1_1K       1834           1827           -0.38%
BenchmarkRegexpMatchMedium_32      427            412            -3.51%
BenchmarkRegexpMatchMedium_1K      154841         153086         -1.13%
BenchmarkRegexpMatchHard_32        7473           7478           +0.07%
BenchmarkRegexpMatchHard_1K        233587         232272         -0.56%
BenchmarkRevcomp                   918797689      944528032      +2.80%
BenchmarkTemplate                  167665081      167773121      +0.06%
BenchmarkTimeParse                 631            636            +0.79%
BenchmarkTimeFormat                672            666            -0.89%

Change-Id: Ia923de3cdb3993b640fe0a02cbe2c7babc16f32c
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/6782Reviewed-by: Rick Hudson <rlh@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Austin Clements <austin@google.com>