This makes it cheaper to copy string literals.
This happens just about anywhere that they are used.

Example:

func f() string {
	return "f"
}

Using 6g, compiler output before:

"".f t=1 size=32 value=0 args=0x10 locals=0x0
	0x0000 00000 (p.go:3)	TEXT	"".f+0(SB),4,$0-16
	0x0000 00000 (p.go:3)	FUNCDATA	$0,gclocals·d64e51a4c4bfeaa840e480961ec6b0b3+0(SB)
	0x0000 00000 (p.go:3)	FUNCDATA	$1,gclocals·3280bececceccd33cb74587feedb1f9f+0(SB)
	0x0000 00000 (p.go:4)	LEAQ	go.string."f"+0(SB),BX
	0x0007 00007 (p.go:4)	MOVQ	(BX),BP
	0x000a 00010 (p.go:4)	MOVQ	BP,"".~r0+8(FP)
	0x000f 00015 (p.go:4)	MOVQ	8(BX),BP
	0x0013 00019 (p.go:4)	MOVQ	BP,"".~r0+16(FP)
	0x0018 00024 (p.go:4)	RET	,

After:

"".f t=1 size=32 value=0 args=0x10 locals=0x0
	0x0000 00000 (p.go:3)	TEXT	"".f+0(SB),4,$0-16
	0x0000 00000 (p.go:3)	FUNCDATA	$0,gclocals·d64e51a4c4bfeaa840e480961ec6b0b3+0(SB)
	0x0000 00000 (p.go:3)	FUNCDATA	$1,gclocals·3280bececceccd33cb74587feedb1f9f+0(SB)
	0x0000 00000 (p.go:4)	MOVQ	$go.string."f"+16(SB),BX
	0x0007 00007 (p.go:4)	MOVQ	BX,"".~r0+8(FP)
	0x000c 00012 (p.go:4)	MOVQ	$1,"".~r0+16(FP)
	0x0015 00021 (p.go:4)	RET	,

The leading MOVQ here will be converted into a LEAQ by the linker,
but there is still a net reduction of two MOVQs.

Before:

TEXT main.f(SB)
        p.go:4  0x2000  488d1d49500500  LEAQ 0x55049(IP), BX
        p.go:4  0x2007  488b2b          MOVQ 0(BX), BP
        p.go:4  0x200a  48896c2408      MOVQ BP, 0x8(SP)
        p.go:4  0x200f  488b6b08        MOVQ 0x8(BX), BP
        p.go:4  0x2013  48896c2410      MOVQ BP, 0x10(SP)
        p.go:4  0x2018  c3              RET

After:

TEXT main.f(SB)
        p.go:4  0x2000  488d1dd94c0500          LEAQ 0x54cd9(IP), BX
        p.go:4  0x2007  48895c2408              MOVQ BX, 0x8(SP)
        p.go:4  0x200c  48c744241001000000      MOVQ $0x1, 0x10(SP)
        p.go:4  0x2015  c3                      RET

The performance improvement is small but widespread.

As a nice small example, net/url's sole benchmark using 6g:

benchmark           old ns/op     new ns/op     delta
BenchmarkString     16372         16118         -1.55%

And with 8g:

benchmark           old ns/op     new ns/op     delta
BenchmarkString     22034         21709         -1.47%

Change-Id: I4ce202ee7dbd4057be869e2faaaa638c28a1fff0
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/2587Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
Run-TryBot: Josh Bleecher Snyder <josharian@gmail.com>