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		38 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Optimizing Heap Allocations in Go: A Case Study instead of this: `t.Buf = []byte{}` you can just do: `t.Buf = nil`

rsc 10 months ago [–]

Those are semantically different (one is nil and one is not) but neither allocates.

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