package main import ( "fmt" "runtime" "unsafe" ) func printAllocs() { var m runtime.MemStats runtime.ReadMemStats(&m) fmt.Printf("%d MB\n", m.Alloc/1024/1024) } func findSequence(data string) string { for i := 0; i < len(data)-1; i++ { if data[i] == '\n' && data[i+1] == '\t' { return data[i+2 : i+22] } } return "" } func main() { data := make([]byte, 1<<30) // let's imagine that data was read from a file str := unsafe.String(unsafe.SliceData(data), len(data)) sequence := findSequence(str) _ = sequence // using of sequence later printAllocs() runtime.GC() printAllocs() runtime.KeepAlive(data) }