benchmark           old MB/s     new MB/s     speedup
BenchmarkEncode     243.20       279.89       1.15x

benchmark           old allocs     new allocs     delta
BenchmarkEncode     1370           4              -99.71%

Change-Id: I3920bcc04b6dd89efa5da89db5594d4434426d74
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/1924Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>