From 9e772748b0472df17f29067cc59dda58fe2060b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Michael DuPont <jamesmikedupont+build@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2017 08:19:46 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] small optimization

---
 trie.go | 16 ++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/trie.go b/trie.go
index 4fbf0f5..f549a75 100644
--- a/trie.go
+++ b/trie.go
@@ -73,9 +73,13 @@ func (t *Trie) Find(key string) (*Node, bool) {
 	if node == nil {
 		return nil, false
 	}
-
-	node, ok := node.Children()[nul]
-	if !ok || !node.term {
+	
+	node, ok :=node.children[0]
+	//node, ok := node.Children()[nul]
+	if !ok {
+		return nil, false
+	}
+	if !node.term {
 		return nil, false
 	}
 
@@ -201,7 +205,11 @@ func findNode(node *Node, runes []rune) *Node {
 	} else {
 		nrunes = runes[0:0]
 	}
-
+	
+	// optimization
+	if n == nil {
+		return nil
+	}
 	return findNode(n, nrunes)
 }