> prior to 1.2, the Go linker was emitting a compressed line table, and the program would decompress it upon initialization at run-time. in Go 1.2, a decision w

> prior to 1.2, the Go linker was emitting a compressed line table, and the program would decompress it upon initialization at run-time. in Go 1.2, a decision was made to pre-expand the line table in the executable file into its final format suitable for direct use at run-time, without an additional decompression step. Sounds like a good case for a flag.