diff --git a/src/pkg/bytes/bytes.go b/src/pkg/bytes/bytes.go
index d074987..c0937ca 100644
--- a/src/pkg/bytes/bytes.go
+++ b/src/pkg/bytes/bytes.go
@@ -552,48 +552,6 @@
 	return TrimFunc(s, unicode.IsSpace)
 }
 
-// How big to make a byte array when growing.
-// Heuristic: Scale by 50% to give n log n time.
-func resize(n int) int {
-	if n < 16 {
-		n = 16
-	}
-	return n + n/2
-}
-
-// Add appends the contents of t to the end of s and returns the result.
-// If s has enough capacity, it is extended in place; otherwise a
-// new array is allocated and returned.
-func Add(s, t []byte) []byte { // TODO
-	lens := len(s)
-	lent := len(t)
-	if lens+lent <= cap(s) {
-		s = s[0 : lens+lent]
-	} else {
-		news := make([]byte, lens+lent, resize(lens+lent))
-		copy(news, s)
-		s = news
-	}
-	copy(s[lens:lens+lent], t)
-	return s
-}
-
-// AddByte appends byte t to the end of s and returns the result.
-// If s has enough capacity, it is extended in place; otherwise a
-// new array is allocated and returned.
-func AddByte(s []byte, t byte) []byte { // TODO
-	lens := len(s)
-	if lens+1 <= cap(s) {
-		s = s[0 : lens+1]
-	} else {
-		news := make([]byte, lens+1, resize(lens+1))
-		copy(news, s)
-		s = news
-	}
-	s[lens] = t
-	return s
-}
-
 // Runes returns a slice of runes (Unicode code points) equivalent to s.
 func Runes(s []byte) []int {
 	t := make([]int, utf8.RuneCount(s))
diff --git a/src/pkg/bytes/bytes_test.go b/src/pkg/bytes/bytes_test.go
index 28e7086..063686e 100644
--- a/src/pkg/bytes/bytes_test.go
+++ b/src/pkg/bytes/bytes_test.go
@@ -573,45 +573,6 @@
 
 func TestTrimSpace(t *testing.T) { runStringTests(t, TrimSpace, "TrimSpace", trimSpaceTests) }
 
-type AddTest struct {
-	s, t string
-	cap  int
-}
-
-var addtests = []AddTest{
-	{"", "", 0},
-	{"a", "", 1},
-	{"a", "b", 1},
-	{"abc", "def", 100},
-}
-
-func TestAdd(t *testing.T) {
-	for _, test := range addtests {
-		b := make([]byte, len(test.s), test.cap)
-		copy(b, test.s)
-		b = Add(b, []byte(test.t))
-		if string(b) != test.s+test.t {
-			t.Errorf("Add(%q,%q) = %q", test.s, test.t, string(b))
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-func TestAddByte(t *testing.T) {
-	const N = 2e5
-	b := make([]byte, 0)
-	for i := 0; i < N; i++ {
-		b = AddByte(b, byte(i))
-	}
-	if len(b) != N {
-		t.Errorf("AddByte: too small; expected %d got %d", N, len(b))
-	}
-	for i, c := range b {
-		if c != byte(i) {
-			t.Fatalf("AddByte: b[%d] should be %d is %d", i, c, byte(i))
-		}
-	}
-}
-
 type RepeatTest struct {
 	in, out string
 	count   int
diff --git a/src/pkg/crypto/tls/conn.go b/src/pkg/crypto/tls/conn.go
index b18cda7..125d0a9 100644
--- a/src/pkg/crypto/tls/conn.go
+++ b/src/pkg/crypto/tls/conn.go
@@ -560,7 +560,7 @@
 	// The handshake message unmarshallers
 	// expect to be able to keep references to data,
 	// so pass in a fresh copy that won't be overwritten.
-	data = bytes.Add(nil, data)
+	data = append([]byte(nil), data...)
 
 	if !m.unmarshal(data) {
 		c.sendAlert(alertUnexpectedMessage)
diff --git a/src/pkg/json/scanner_test.go b/src/pkg/json/scanner_test.go
index 82d520b..b90f581 100644
--- a/src/pkg/json/scanner_test.go
+++ b/src/pkg/json/scanner_test.go
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@
 		t.Errorf("invalid rest: %d", len(rest))
 	}
 
-	item, rest, err = nextValue(bytes.Add(jsonBig, []byte("HELLO WORLD")), &scan)
+	item, rest, err = nextValue(append(jsonBig, []byte("HELLO WORLD")...), &scan)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("nextValue extra: ", err)
 	}
diff --git a/src/pkg/json/stream.go b/src/pkg/json/stream.go
index d4fb346..cb9b165 100644
--- a/src/pkg/json/stream.go
+++ b/src/pkg/json/stream.go
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
 package json
 
 import (
-	"bytes"
 	"io"
 	"os"
 )
@@ -177,7 +176,7 @@
 	if m == nil {
 		return os.NewError("json.RawMessage: UnmarshalJSON on nil pointer")
 	}
-	*m = bytes.Add((*m)[0:0], data)
+	*m = append((*m)[0:0], data...)
 	return nil
 }
 
diff --git a/src/pkg/net/textproto/reader.go b/src/pkg/net/textproto/reader.go
index aad2553..c8e34b7 100644
--- a/src/pkg/net/textproto/reader.go
+++ b/src/pkg/net/textproto/reader.go
@@ -51,8 +51,6 @@
 	return line[0:n], err
 }
 
-var space = []byte{' '}
-
 // ReadContinuedLine reads a possibly continued line from r,
 // eliding the final trailing ASCII white space.
 // Lines after the first are considered continuations if they
@@ -132,8 +130,8 @@
 		var cont []byte
 		cont, err = r.ReadLineBytes()
 		cont = trim(cont)
-		line = bytes.Add(line, space)
-		line = bytes.Add(line, cont)
+		line = append(line, ' ')
+		line = append(line, cont...)
 		if err != nil {
 			break
 		}
diff --git a/src/pkg/regexp/regexp.go b/src/pkg/regexp/regexp.go
index 80bcb46..2d43437 100644
--- a/src/pkg/regexp/regexp.go
+++ b/src/pkg/regexp/regexp.go
@@ -675,7 +675,7 @@
 			break Loop
 		}
 		n := utf8.EncodeRune(utf, inst.(*_Char).char)
-		b = bytes.Add(b, utf[0:n])
+		b = append(b, utf[0:n]...)
 		i = inst.next().index()
 	}
 	// point prefixStart instruction to first non-CHAR after prefix
diff --git a/src/pkg/xml/read.go b/src/pkg/xml/read.go
index bbceda6..1999ebc 100644
--- a/src/pkg/xml/read.go
+++ b/src/pkg/xml/read.go
@@ -389,12 +389,12 @@
 
 		case CharData:
 			if saveData != nil {
-				data = bytes.Add(data, t)
+				data = append(data, t...)
 			}
 
 		case Comment:
 			if saveComment != nil {
-				comment = bytes.Add(comment, t)
+				comment = append(comment, t...)
 			}
 		}
 	}