Go Allocation Challenge

allocation_challenge

// Created by Bill Hathaway to see if line 16 would produce an
// allocation in Go v1.3
package main
 
import (
	"testing"
)
 
var (
	m  = make(map[string]struct{})
	ba = []byte{104, 101, 108, 108, 111}
)
 
func BenchmarkExternalAllocations(b *testing.B) {
	for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
		external := string(ba)
		m[external] = struct{}{}
	}
	b.ReportAllocs()
}