encoding/gob: use simple append-only buffer for encoding

Bytes buffers have more API and are a little slower. Since appending
is a key part of the path in encode, using a faster implementation
speeds things up measurably.
The couple of positive swings are likely garbage-collection related
since memory allocation looks different in the benchmark now.
I am not concerned by them.

benchmark                            old ns/op     new ns/op     delta
BenchmarkEndToEndPipe                6620          6388          -3.50%
BenchmarkEndToEndByteBuffer          3548          3600          +1.47%
BenchmarkEndToEndSliceByteBuffer     336678        367980        +9.30%
BenchmarkEncodeComplex128Slice       78199         71297         -8.83%
BenchmarkEncodeFloat64Slice          37731         32258         -14.51%
BenchmarkEncodeInt32Slice            26780         22977         -14.20%
BenchmarkEncodeStringSlice           35882         26492         -26.17%
BenchmarkDecodeComplex128Slice       194819        185126        -4.98%
BenchmarkDecodeFloat64Slice          120538        120102        -0.36%
BenchmarkDecodeInt32Slice            106442        107275        +0.78%
BenchmarkDecodeStringSlice           272902        269866        -1.11%

LGTM=ruiu
R=golang-codereviews, ruiu
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/160990043

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/encoding/gob/decoder.go b/src/encoding/gob/decoder.go
index dcad7a0e48..fe1494100a 100644
--- a/src/encoding/gob/decoder.go
+++ b/src/encoding/gob/decoder.go
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ func (dec *Decoder) Decode(e interface{}) error {
 // Otherwise, it stores the value into v.  In that case, v must represent
 // a non-nil pointer to data or be an assignable reflect.Value (v.CanSet())
 // If the input is at EOF, DecodeValue returns io.EOF and
-// does not modify e.
+// does not modify v.
 func (dec *Decoder) DecodeValue(v reflect.Value) error {
 	if v.IsValid() {
 		if v.Kind() == reflect.Ptr && !v.IsNil() {