SliceTricks: use builtin clear

After filtering without allocating, it's recommended to loop over the underlying slice `a` and setting all unneeded values to `nil` manually if they're to be gc'ed. Instead, one might simply use the builtin `clear` on the sub-slice starting at the end of `b`. Change-Id: I25c180bbbccf989ffa0d1fadd54e3a20ff9504c8 GitHub-Last-Rev: ce32262 GitHub-Pull-Request: #24 Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/wiki/+/609517 Auto-Submit: Ian Lance Taylor <[email protected]> Commit-Queue: Ian Lance Taylor <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <[email protected]>
golang · Feb 18, 2025 · ac40441 · ac40441
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@@ -187,9 +187,7 @@ for _, x := range a {
 For elements which must be garbage collected, the following code can be included afterwards:
 
 ```go
-for i := len(b); i < len(a); i++ {
-	a[i] = nil // or the zero value of T
-}
+clear(a[len(b):])
 ```
 
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