No point in passing the slice type to these functions.
All they need is the element type.  One less indirection,
maybe a few less []T type descriptors in the binary.

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Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/22275Reviewed-by: Josh Bleecher Snyder <josharian@gmail.com>