“This is the first in a series of articles analysing the performance improvements in the Go 1.1 release.
It has been reported (here, and here) that performance improvements of 30-40% are available simply by recompiling your code under Go 1.1. For linux/amd64 this holds true for a wide spectrum of benchmarks. For platforms like linux/386 and linux/arm the results are even more impressive, but I’m putting the cart before the horse…”
http://dave.cheney.net/2013/05/21/go-1-1-performance-improvements
http://dave.cheney.net/2013/05/25/go-11-performance-improvements-part-2
http://dave.cheney.net/2013/05/28/go-11-performance-improvements-part-3
thoughts... 