to move some variables from the stack to the heap.

Sorted benchmark runs on my 2007-era Mac Mini (GOARCH=amd64, GOOS=linux):

Before:
lzw.BenchmarkDecoder        2000        878176 ns/op
lzw.BenchmarkDecoder        2000        878415 ns/op
lzw.BenchmarkDecoder        2000        880352 ns/op
lzw.BenchmarkDecoder        2000        898445 ns/op
lzw.BenchmarkDecoder        2000        901728 ns/op

After:
lzw.BenchmarkDecoder        2000        859065 ns/op
lzw.BenchmarkDecoder        2000        859402 ns/op
lzw.BenchmarkDecoder        2000        860035 ns/op
lzw.BenchmarkDecoder        2000        860555 ns/op
lzw.BenchmarkDecoder        2000        861109 ns/op

The ratio of before/after median times is 1.024.

The runtime.MemStats.Mallocs delta per loop drops from 109 to 104.

R=r, r2, dfc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4253043