In all previous versions of Go, the behavior of IndexRune(s, r)
where r was utf.RuneError was that it would effectively return the
index of any invalid UTF-8 byte sequence (include RuneError).
Optimizations made in http://golang.org/cl/28537 and
http://golang.org/cl/28546 altered this undocumented behavior such
that RuneError would only match on the RuneError rune itself.
Although, the new behavior is arguably reasonable, it did break code
that depended on the previous behavior. Thus, we add special checks
to ensure that we preserve the old behavior.
There is a slight performance hit for correctness:
benchmark old ns/op new ns/op delta
BenchmarkIndexRune/10-4 19.3 21.6 +11.92%
BenchmarkIndexRune/32-4 33.6 35.2 +4.76%
This only occurs on small strings. The performance hit for larger strings
is neglible and not shown.