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Re:Go 1.5 is released by semiquaver on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @05:26PM (#10088623)
The small increase in build times doesn't bother me at all when I'm generating a binary, but unfortunately it's very noticeable and irritating when using tools like vim-go or syntastic which type-check/lint/gofmt your code. Using these now causes vim to be unresponsive for up to a second every time I save, whereas the delay used to be insignificant.
Re:Go 1.5 is released by mseepgood on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @10:43PM (#10089793)
> which type-check/lint/gofmt your code

Those tools do not use the Go compiler. They're using go/ast or go/types. So the translation of gc from C to Go can't have affected them.

Re:Go 1.5 is released by bohrshaw on Thursday August 20, 2015 @05:05AM (#10090680)
They also build the source file, which is indeed much slower, to about 2x.