Merge pull request #159 from google:optimize-slice-growth-evalretriev… #535

Job	Run time
go_test (windows-latest)	6m 57s
go_test (ubuntu-latest)	4m 48s
go_test (macOS-latest)	4m 1s
go_spec_test_coverage (ubuntu-latest)	1m 27s
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