extemporalgenome

For whatever reason, at least with amd64 tests builds on my AMD X2 3800+,
the pointer receiver implementation is 13% slower when bound checks are elided.

# default run (value receiver is 49% slower than ptr receiver)
go test -bench . 
BenchmarkSortVal         1000000              1300 ns/op
BenchmarkSortPtrToVal    1000000              1297 ns/op
BenchmarkSortPtr         2000000               870 ns/op

# no bounds checking (value receiver is 11% slower than ptr receiver)

extemporalgenome

def hex_buffer(buf):
    retstr=''.join(map(lambda c:'\\x%02x'%ord(c),buf))
    retstr="E'"+retstr+"'"
    return retstr

extemporalgenome

def hex_buffer(buf):
    retstr=''.join(map(lambda c:'\\x%02x'%ord(c),buf))
    retstr="E'"+retstr+"'"
    return retstr