On: Go 1.5 is released

[mseepgood]

> 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.

[bohrshaw → mseepgood]

They also build the source file, which is indeed much slower, to about 2x.