From Go 1.5.4 to 1.7, I can see that the compilation time has improved. Didn't measure it, though. However, the binary size didn't change appreciably. From 1

From Go 1.5.4 to 1.7, I can see that the compilation time has improved. Didn't measure it, though. However, the binary size didn't change appreciably. From 11129144 bytes, it reduced by 0.00179708340551618345%.