Remove pointer slices and increase performance

[mertakman]

https://medium.com/@philpearl/bad-go-slices-of-pointers-ed3c06b8bb41 Using pointers with slices in Golang often causes bad errors since the slices are pointers by default. When iterating them , it bloats L caches and prevents them from caching the page of slice which will increase iteration and lookup performance . Benchmarks with previous and current version is : Previous version:

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[LdDl]

That's interesting anyways despite you closed PR :) I guess it will be reopened later?

There is a comment section in that article and sometimes storing Values instead of Pointers could lead to some problems: https://go.dev/play/p/lk7s0IO7-WY. But, in case of identifier term for vertex it's not a case I believe