i'm not using cgo

pretty sure someone did some bindings ages ago, but not for schnorr signatures, only ecdsa

and yeah, that's pretty lame how the gob codec only talks to readers and bytes.buffer doesn't let you swap out the buffer, that decoder setup is a massive overhead, in the encode step that takes out 800us, and honestly that looks like most of the time the encoder is taking... i think writing a io.Reader that lets you point at a new buffer would change the story drastically

bytes.Buffer is honestly a terrible thing... i also made my own variant of it for the json envelope decoder, it simply has no notion of the idea of pre-allocating the buffer that you know you aren't going to need to grow... growing buffers is a massive overhead cost and in many cases easy to avoid

https://github.com/Hubmakerlabs/replicatr/blob/main/pkg/nostr/wire/text/mangle.go

it includes a bunch of handy functions that let you snip out an enclosed object or array inside another object or array without parsing it, as well as snipping out strings while avoiding escaped strings

some parts of the Go stdlib are written like a soviet commitee but others not so bad, i particularly hate math/big and i'm working with noise protocol recently and the way they have a feature that it automatically appends it to an input parameter is just fucking ridiculous, like, fucks sake, do one thing and do it well, this precise feature blows up the heap and breaks any attempts you make to contain garbage production