// should therefore be always resident in the L1 cache - until we
	// have completed the construction of the result.
	// This yields significant speedups (up to +100%) in cases where
	// the result length is large (roughly, over L2 cache size).
	const chunkLimit = 8 * 1024
	chunkMax := n
	if chunkMax > chunkLimit {
		chunkMax = chunkLimit / len(b) * len(b)
		if chunkMax == 0 {
			chunkMax = len(b)
		}
	}