This is a copy of golang.org/cl/22092 by Ryan Brown.

Here's his original comment:
On my machine this increases the average time for 'go build cmd/go' from
2.25s to 2.36s. I tried to measure compile and link separately but saw
no significant change.

Change-Id: If0d2b756d52a0d30d4eda526929c82794d89dd7b
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/25311
Run-TryBot: Michael Matloob <matloob@golang.org>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: David Crawshaw <crawshaw@golang.org>