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 /*
 
 Cloned from: https://pastebin.com/ukxUmAwa
 
 AMD Athlon64 X2
 2GB DDR2
 
 Go 1.5.1 linux/amd64
 
 Ubuntu 15.10
 Linux asus 4.2.0-19-generic #23-Ubuntu SMP Wed Nov 11 11:39:30 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
 
 BenchmarkStringSprintf-2	     100	  10140559 ns/op	 5518024 B/op	    4616 allocs/op
 BenchmarkStringJoin-2   	     200	   6962496 ns/op	 5388737 B/op	    2000 allocs/op
 BenchmarkStringAdd-2    	     500	   3440360 ns/op	 2694352 B/op	     999 allocs/op
 BenchmarkStringWrite-2  	   30000	     54597 ns/op	   18656 B/op	       8 allocs/op
 BenchmarkStringAppend-2 	   30000	     41325 ns/op	   20736 B/op	      13 allocs/op
 BenchmarkBytesJoin-2    	     300	   4883126 ns/op	 2694449 B/op	    1001 allocs/op
 BenchmarkBytesAppend-2  	   30000	     53491 ns/op	   20736 B/op	      13 allocs/op
 BenchmarkBytesWrite-2   	   20000	     64233 ns/op	   18656 B/op	       8 allocs/op
 
 Feel free to change the LIMIT.
 
 */
 package test
 
 import (
 	"bytes"
 	"fmt"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
 )
 
 var (
 	s1 = "local"
 	b1 = []byte("local")
 )
 
 const LIMIT = 1000
 
 func BenchmarkStringSprintf(b *testing.B) {
 	var q string
 	for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
 		for j := 0; j < LIMIT; j++ {
 			q = fmt.Sprintf("%s%s", q, s1)
 		}
 		q = ""
 	}
 	b.ReportAllocs()
 }
 
 func BenchmarkStringJoin(b *testing.B) {
 	var q string
 	for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
 		for j := 0; j < LIMIT; j++ {
 			q = strings.Join([]string{q, s1}, "")
 		}
 		q = ""
 	}
 	b.ReportAllocs()
 }
 
 func BenchmarkStringAdd(b *testing.B) {
 	var q string
 	for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
 		for j := 0; j < LIMIT; j++ {
 			q = q + s1
 		}
 		q = ""
 	}
 	b.ReportAllocs()
 }
 
 func BenchmarkStringWrite(b *testing.B) {
 	q := new(bytes.Buffer)
 	for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
 		for j := 0; j < LIMIT; j++ {
 			q.WriteString(s1)
 		}
 		q = new(bytes.Buffer)
 	}
 }
 
 func BenchmarkStringAppend(b *testing.B) {
 	var q []byte
 	for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
 		for j := 0; j < LIMIT; j++ {
 			q = append(q, s1...)
 		}
 		q = nil
 	}
 	b.ReportAllocs()
 }
 
 func BenchmarkBytesJoin(b *testing.B) {
 	var q []byte
 	for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
 		for j := 0; j < LIMIT; j++ {
 			q = bytes.Join([][]byte{q, b1}, nil)
 		}
 		q = nil
 	}
 	b.ReportAllocs()
 }
 
 func BenchmarkBytesAppend(b *testing.B) {
 	var q []byte
 	for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
 		for j := 0; j < LIMIT; j++ {
 			q = append(q, b1...)
 		}
 		q = nil
 	}
 	b.ReportAllocs()
 }
 
 func BenchmarkBytesWrite(b *testing.B) {
 	q := new(bytes.Buffer)
 	for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
 		for j := 0; j < LIMIT; j++ {
 			q.Write(b1)
 		}
 		q = new(bytes.Buffer)
 	}
 }