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1. Make compile times slower for every release.

2. Restore compile times to 1.3 or so levels.

3. Collect praise from g-sheep.

Yes, compile times have gotten worse in some releases, but there were good technical reasons for the trade-off, mainly the general quality improvements of the go environment. But the good news is, they are not resting but trying to gain back the lost speed - you do not observe this always in larger programs.

Calling people happy about this "g-sheep" is unnecessary name-calling.

It would be interesting to see some benchmarks from each version... :)

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