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Returning slice of structs is faster than slice of pointers

It might not be intuitive, but the optimizations that are happening underneath actually make returning a slice of structs faster than a slice of pointers. Andrii Kushch has created a great benchmark to prove it:

Benchmark_ReturnSliceWithPointers-8        10000
186592 ns/op
161920 B/op
10001 allocs/opBenchmark_ReturnSliceWithStructs-8         10000
11943 ns/op
81920 B/op
1 allocs/op

• Go: what to return? A slice of structs vs a slice of pointers? | by Andrii Kushch | Medium
  https://andrii-kushch.medium.com/go-what-to-return-a-slice-of-structs-vs-a-slice-of-pointers-42647912530a

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