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proposal: net: reconsider representation of IP #18804

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FrozenDueToAgeNeedsInvestigationSomeone must examine and confirm this is a valid issue and not a duplicate of an existing one.Proposalv2An incompatible library change
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opened on Jan 26, 2017

A net.IP is currently a []byte, which has the bad properties of:

  • being mutable
  • not being able to be a map key
  • being large (the 24 byte slice header on 64-bit machines is bigger by itself than a 16 byte IPv6 address)

Reconsider for Go 2.

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