Yes, and a []byte is even going to have at least as much inline overhead: it stores 24 bytes (length, capacity, pointer), and of course plus the 4 bytes of actu

Yes, and a []byte is even going to have at least as much inline overhead: it stores 24 bytes (length, capacity, pointer), and of course plus the 4 bytes of actual data. Even on a 32-bit platform, the []byte inline storage is 12 bytes.