Inspired by Alberto Donizetti's observations in
https://go-review.googlesource.com/#/c/30099/.
name old time/op new time/op delta
DecimalConversion-8 138µs ± 1% 136µs ± 2% -1.85% (p=0.000 n=10+10)
10 runs each, measured on a Mac Mini, 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7.
Performance improvements varied between -1.25% to -4.4%; -1.85% is
about in the middle of the observed improvement. The generated code
is slightly shorter in the inner loops of the conversion code.
Change-Id: I10fb3b2843da527691c39ad5e5e5bd37ed63e2fa
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/31250 Reviewed-by: Alan Donovan <adonovan@google.com>