No, there was no appreciable user benefit, and that was intended. To respond to others: it wasn't a "premature" optimization, because it wasn't any kind of opti

No, there was no appreciable user benefit, and that was intended. To respond to others: it wasn't a "premature" optimization, because it wasn't any kind of optimization. The sole benefit in this case was for me to learn Go programming -- and I noted that in the article title and intro. :-)