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Josh Rickmar
dca623d4ef Optimize base58 decoding.
This change introduces an autogenerated base58 digit table to remove
the need to find the index of a character in the modified base58
alphabet each time.  Additionally, it removes some unnecessary big
integer allocations to cut down on the GC churn.

Before:
BenchmarkBase58Encode         20          64998995 ns/op           0.08 MB/s
BenchmarkBase58Decode         50          35965928 ns/op           0.19 MB/s

Now:
BenchmarkBase58Encode         20          64644351 ns/op           0.08 MB/s
BenchmarkBase58Decode        200           7914748 ns/op           0.86 MB/s
2015-01-24 14:59:51 -05:00