nice things coming in Go 1.7: toolchain improvements

[Michael Hudson-Doyle]

I hope you're getting your go 1.4 from
https://launchpad.net/~gophers/+archive/ubuntu/testing :-)

Cheers,
mwh

On 19 April 2016 at 16:35, Menno Smits <menno.smits at canonical.com> wrote:
> That is good news! I've been flipping back to Go 1.4 sometimes when doing
> rapid code-test cycles due to the slower build times.
>
>
> On 18 April 2016 at 15:59, Michael Hudson-Doyle
> <michael.hudson at canonical.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I know we're all heads down for release, but I thought I'd report
>> something interesting: the go linker in go tip / 1.7-to-be is so much
>> faster than the one in 1.6 that it nearly halves the time to run "go
>> test github.com/juju/juju/...", taking the wall clock time on this EC2
>> instance I had set up from "28m1.069s" to "15m19.542s"! So that's
>> something to look forward to :-)
>>
>> (Actually go tip chokes on the juju tests currently, I wound back a
>> few days to make these numbers -- upstream bug report being written
>> now)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> mwh
>>
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