AFAIK, yes it is still the case (although somewhat slightly improved), but precise collector is officially expected (and being worked on) for version 1.1 . The

AFAIK, yes it is still the case (although somewhat slightly improved), but precise collector is officially expected (and being worked on) for version 1.1 . The latter was explicitly said on a Q&A session on Google I/O conference, the video is available somewhere on teh interwebs. edit: I think it's this one: http://youtu.be/sln-gJaURzk http://youtu.be/sln-gJaURzk ("Meet the Go team"), but maybe some other from: http://blog.golang.org/2012/07/go-videos-from-google-io-2012.html http://blog.golang.org/2012/07/go-videos-from-google-io-2012... (sorry, don't have time to watch them all again now to make sure ;)