bytes.Buffer.Bytes
standard libraryThe 138th most-called standard-library method by production calls. Called 56,785 times across 1,085 modules; 7,345 of those run outside tests and generated code.
- prod calls
- 7,345
- non-test, non-generated
- all calls
- 56,785
- total callsites
- modules
- 1,085
- distinct callers
- in loop
- 10%
- of prod calls
- in tests
- 16%
- 8,979 calls
- resolved
- 100%
- to a known target
resolution mix
How each call resolves
How each call was attributed. Only resolved kinds, where the target function is known, count toward the ranking. Interface dispatch and unresolved receivers are reported separately and never guessed. Read the taxonomy →
- Concrete method100%A method on a value whose type is known exactly.
- Embedded method<1%Reached through an embedded type.
- Method value<1%A method captured as a value, then called.
estimate
Estimated relative cost
Roughly 0.00× the estimated relative cost of fmt.Sprintf . Benchmarked at 1.96 ns/op × 7,345 production calls, normalized so fmt.Sprintf = 1.0.
This is not dollars and not a verdict. Per-op time depends heavily on inputs (argument sizes, contention, patterns), the benchmark ran on a single machine (darwin/arm64 (Apple Silicon), go1.26.0), and static call counts are not runtime frequency. How this is estimated →
who calls this
Notable callers
Production calls into Buffer.Bytes from notable Go projects. Open one on the map to see what else it hammers.
- Kubernetes 420 6%
- Grafana 194 3%
- Go (golang.org/x) 128 2%
- Docker 86 1%
- InfluxDB 82 1%
where it's called
Callsites in the wild
12 representative callsites of 56,785, prioritizing in-loop and non-test usage. We link to source, never display it.
- in loop
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cilium/proxy @v0.0.0-20260721220516-ab0596f228a0
in loop -
cockroachdb/cockroach @v19.2.12+incompatible
in loop -
containerd/stargz-snapshotter/estargz @v0.18.2
testutil.go:233
in loop -
dgraph-io/dgraph/v24 @v24.1.9
in loop - in loop
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encr.dev @v1.57.13
v2/codegen/infragen/secretsgen/secretsgen.go:45
in loop -
entgo.io/ent @v0.14.6
entc/gen/graph.go:258
in loop - in loop
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gitea.dev @v1.27.1
modules/git/languagestats/language_stats_nogogit.go:88
in loop -
Binject/debug @v0.0.0-20260128230015-4e22595eaac6
in loop -
CodisLabs/codis @v0.0.0-20181104082235-de1ad026e329
in loop
top callers
The modules that reach for it
The modules that call Buffer.Bytes most in this snapshot.
- google.golang.org/api10,55819%
- github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/ec23,0345%
- github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/glue1,2862%
- github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/rds1,2252%
- github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/redshift1,1092%
siblings
More from bytes
The other most-called members in this package. See all →