It actually doesn't make that much of a difference. See this commit for actual benchmarks about the impact: https://github.com/golang/go/commit/3be4d95731a17073

It actually doesn't make that much of a difference. See this commit for actual benchmarks about the impact: https://github.com/golang/go/commit/3be4d95731a17073afb1f69bde264eecbdfa32bb https://github.com/golang/go/commit/3be4d95731a17073afb1f69b...