As Brad suggested, mem.RO allows for a lot of easy perf gains. There were also some smaller
changes outside of mem.RO, such as using hex.Decode instead of hex.DecodeString.
```
name old time/op new time/op delta
FromUAPI-8 14.7µs ± 3% 12.3µs ± 4% -16.58% (p=0.008 n=5+5)
name old alloc/op new alloc/op delta
FromUAPI-8 9.52kB ± 0% 7.04kB ± 0% -26.05% (p=0.008 n=5+5)
name old allocs/op new allocs/op delta
FromUAPI-8 77.0 ± 0% 29.0 ± 0% -62.34% (p=0.008 n=5+5)
```
Signed-off-by: julianknodt <julianknodt@gmail.com>