From 859ebc4489ce81edc0681881700b0f22754943f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Felix=20Geisendo=CC=88rfer?= <felix@debuggable.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 17:10:07 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] optimize: avoid string cast

43.9 ns/op
---
 xxd.go | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/xxd.go b/xxd.go
index cb03afb..eb9cb29 100644
--- a/xxd.go
+++ b/xxd.go
@@ -77,9 +77,9 @@ func XXD(r io.Reader, w io.Writer) error {
 
 		// Character values
 		b := buf[:n]
-		for _, c := range b {
+		for i, c := range b {
 			if c > 0x1f && c < 0x7f {
-				io.WriteString(w, string(c))
+				w.Write(buf[i : i+1])
 			} else {
 				w.Write(dot)
 			}