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		karmakaze on Nov 15, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Making a Go program faster with a one-character ch... The way to fix it in that manner here is to undo the 42% speedup and return the heap allocated object for the caller to mangle.

account42 on Nov 15, 2022 [–]

Yes, if you are serious about backwards compat then you pay that cost and perhaps add a separate function that is faster for callers to opt into.

karmakaze on Nov 15, 2022 | [–]

Effectively deprecating the old one and recommending the new one being a way to smoothly 'fix' an API.

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