cmd/guru: re-use buffer for reading files

I felt guilty about leaving 2% on the table in CL 108878,
so I thought I'd get it a different way.

Teach readFile to accept a re-usable bytes.Buffer to read into,
to reduce the amount of garbage created.

To limit the possible memory impact of giant files,
only re-use the buffer for the duration of a single package.
Even that is enough to help.

name       old time/op       new time/op       delta
Referrers        4.67s ± 3%        4.58s ± 2%  -1.96%  (p=0.029 n=10+10)

name       old user-time/op  new user-time/op  delta
Referrers        16.5s ± 3%        15.8s ± 1%  -4.39%  (p=0.000 n=10+8)

name       old sys-time/op   new sys-time/op   delta
Referrers        16.1s ± 3%        15.9s ± 3%    ~     (p=0.218 n=10+10)

This work supported by Sourcegraph.

Change-Id: I594ef25c0fd5ccb766ff5b98dbbd1a75a7a4f957
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/108935
Reviewed-by: Alan Donovan <adonovan@google.com>
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