It didn't, do what? I would consider the first 256 integers to be "small integers" ;) > Converting a small integer value into an interface value no longer caus

It didn't, do what? I would consider the first 256 integers to be "small integers" ;) > Converting a small integer value into an interface value no longer causes allocation I forgot that it can also be used for single byte strings, That's not an optimization I ever encountered being useful, but it's there!